---Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > This already looks much better. > A few things about egpage2a.html though: > > * white space is important, it must be symmetrical, if > fact I much prefer the same white space treatment as > in the original dictionary HTML
Are you referring to the vertical whitespace around the names? There shouldn't be any problem adjusting the CSS to provide the desired white space, but of course personal preferences will come in to play. I have made a formatting change that I think improves the visual clarity of the page. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~rsherloc/jdict/egpage2a.html However it might be better for us to try and come to a consensus on the structural markup first before we get bogged down on these ;-). > * I gather, <!--top jump start--> and <divid="Header"> > should be mutually exclusive > * I am not sure <divid="Examples"> has much merit, > with <P> addition, the rest of the page can be just > thought as part of the body. > > * The same refers to <divid="Content">. > It could also be just part of body. By removing all these divs it would no longer be possible to specifically target tags (<a> <li> <p> etc) in the Header vs the Content, and distinguishing different tag formatting for pdefn vs Examples would be more awkward. I would argue that the Header, Content, Examples, Exercises and Footer divs add enough benefit, for a small increase in complexity, to be retained. > * THEAD is a kind of "row group", but it that has > only one element is not a group. So TR id="..." is more > appropriate here. A list cannot have 1 element? ;-) Another option would be to use <tr><th></th><th></th></tr>? (see updated page). > * separation of symbol and ranks is too fussy. Either putting > them all in one TD with a class or id, or at most separating > just symbol and ranks together in spans: > <span id="sym">^</span><span id="rank">0 0 0</span> > but this is too much, as they could be easily split by space. To me they are logically different elements and it would therefore be better to separate them using markup even if they are not separated visually. If you were going to create an index for the pages, should the index entry be "^" or "^ 0 0 0" ? > I think just TD would suffice > <TD id="sym">^ 0 0 0</TD> I'm not sure how to include that TD in the table so that the columns still work? Maybe insert an extra row at the top and colspan it across all columns? > Also to identify the page, HEAD/TITLE is used. Agreed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
