Uhhh, the table tags are part of your content. They are the structure. The presentation are things like headings should be bold and red, cells should have a green background. With HTML, you can embed that stuff in the content (though you don't have to). With XHTML, on the other hand, you simply can't. You have to use CSS to do it. That's the separation of content and presentation.
The perfect example is the <b> tag in HTML. What does it mean? It means bold the contained text. That's a presentation concern, not part of the content. In XHTML you have the <strong> tag. What does it mean? The contained text should be 'stronger' than other text. That's a semantic concern, not presentation. The you use CSS to supply the presentation info appropriate for the medium, based on the semantic meaning. For visual text, the default presentation of <strong> is to bold it. But for aural presentation, you'd use a stronger voice tone. Or perhaps you want it to be both bold and a different color. All this is very simple to do, because you can use the same content for multiple presentations, without having to change the content at all. It's worth mentioning that you can do all this with HTML as well as XHTML. The difference is that with HTML you can choose to do it this way, but with XHTML you _have_ to do it this way. cheers, barneyb On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:02:50 -0500, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>except it forces you to separate content from presentation, > > This is exactly what bothers me. I feel like it does exactly the > contrary, by imposing tags in lower case. > For me <TD>some text here</TD> makes much clearer whats part of the > presentation and whats content > than <td>some text here</td> > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 49 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193047 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
