On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
What I'm saying is: the definition list is fine, the additional
proposed use of a DL and a UL is probably fine as well, and you
could even treat it as a small table (as long as appropriate
headings are given for both columns and rows).
I see! Thank you for the clarification.
Jough made a good suggestion however, in regard with my markup, I
have a question here, that a site nature is driven by pictures
(products posted by members, and members' photos), it seems to me
that image has higher emphases then text; also, we human eyes tend to
draw first attention to image than text, so, in a situation that the
image itself = the name. I do not feel Jough's proposal appropriate
as adding UL for total posts and overall score, and moving
"person_profile" to a div class throw away the structure. Why? I
couldn't explain better than Nick showed us:
<dl class="member_profile">
<dt>Avatar Image</dt>
<dd>HAS-A username Orang Utan<dd>
<dd>HAS-A total post count of 1012</dd>
<dd>HAS-AN overall score of 3028</dd>
</dl>
Jough's reason was that the members 'name' defines his/her image. But
to me, "Orang utan" is the 'image' of her, they do not define each
other.
I did not read the DL spec from W3C site when I worked on that
markup, and was not aware I could use two <dt> in <dl>. My
consideration was that the 'image' has higher emphases over the
'name', so placing image in <dt> was appropriate at that time of my
thinking. Now I suppose I can do
<dl class="person_profile">
<dt><img src="images/pic-temp.gif" alt="p" width="26" height="26" /
></dt>
<dt class="name"><a href="#">Orang utan</a></dg>
<dd class="posts"><a href="#">1012</a> total posts</dd>
<dd class="scroe"><a href="#">3028</a> overall score</dd>
</dl>
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On Oct 11, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Nick Lo wrote:
In short the arguments that appear to be coming from the programmer
do not make a lot of sense. I say "appear" as you do not seem to
have spoken to the programmer directly which is something I'd
encourage you to try and do if possible. The root problem here
seems to be not a DL but a lack of a communication path between
those involved in the work which will undoubtedly lead to confusion
and wasted effort.
Yes, you are correct. I do not have direct communication with the
programmmer(s). Client started giving me many CSS coding assignments
for this site since 3 months ago, never was once she returns with a
feedback that my code has problem. The markup that was replaced was
the first assignment I received for the site and I did not hear
anything until two days ago I found out myself. Now it does seem a
bit strange to me, that if my markup is not standard practice by
client's client's in-house programmers, why they would agreed to have
my client kept sending me more assignments.
Still haven't hear from client for the explanation. I guess I just
have to move on.
Oh, and I forgot to give credit to Russ. He showed me how to do 3
columns layout in DL :)
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/rating/index.htm
Russ, I humbly recommend you make a link for above example to this page
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/
It's in my bookmark and I have visited it so many times. I remember
when I wanted to do the 3 column layout you showed me, I went to your
definition page to look for example. Found none, so I posted the
question, and was very grateful you response.
Sincerely,
tee
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