With that particular page, and with the example you used, then I'd say
yes, a tabular layout is well justified. In fact I wouldn't even
recommend structuring data in that fashion using divs/spans etc, as the
markup would a) be as bulky as hell, and b) provide no relationship
between the headings and data, or even the data itself.
Tables are the way to go for this kind of use.
I hope that helps for future reference.
Thanks,
David
tee g. peng wrote:
On Aug 6, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Ben Buchanan wrote:
Hi I have a question, should ebay listing alike be tabular layout?
Do you mean an entire item's listing, or a page listing multiple
items? A URL would be handy to clarify which bit of ebay you're
talking about :)
Something like this:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%
2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=designing+with+web
+standards&category0=
The layout I need to do is such:
image | item desc | Price | Ending | Time Left | Bids
| Store
Didn't get a response early so I told client he shouldn't waste money
for me to do the conversion, still, I would love to have second
opinion perhaps for future reference.
By the way, the layout of the site is CSS but few section are done in
tables, that is part of the reason I think the listing shouldn't need
to convert to CSS. It looks tabular to me.
Best,
tee
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