On 10/26/06, Thierry Koblentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Christian Montoya wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> At 10/26/2006 04:06 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
>>> Paul Novitski wrote:
>>>> If you haven't already, please read my List Apart article
>>>> <http://alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists/>. I'd love it if
>>>> you could improve on any of those techniques or come up with ones I
>>>> hadn't considered.
>>>
>>> Hi Paul,
>>> What about this one?: http://www.tjkdesign.com/test/
>>> ;-)
>>
>> Table-based markup! How ingenious! You're a regular pioneer of the
>> untrod realms, Thierry.
>
> I highly doubt that the idea of using tables for layout will ever
> catch on =)
I don't agree :-)
IMO, the goal should be to deliver the *cleanest* document possible, with
the least amount of structural hack, hook, etc.
In the example I posted, one can't get cleaner than that. The only issue I
see is that screen-readers end up with a table.
But I have an idea about this: what about going one step further than styles
switchers, why not implementing *behavior* switchers? I mean, any fail-safe
solution that targets visual browsers could be turned off. I'd say that
would be more valuable for many users than giving them a choice between
different "skins" or "text-size" ;-)
This document is semantic and has nothing extra to parse:
http://www.tjkdesign.com/test/
on top of that, it is possible to make the list display across different
number of columns without having to edit the markup nor the stylesheet;
actually, there is *no* stylesheet ;)
Disabling the script is all what is needed for screen-readers to speak the
links in the proper sequence.
Think about it... ;-)
Oh, I've been thinking about it. I've been wondering three things:
1. Can't you get the same result by using display:table? (granted, it
would be hard)
2. Wouldn't it be better to use the dom to split the list into two
lists and display them side by side? (how does the table work if there
is an odd number of items?)
3. How does this expect to deal with user agents that look at
*generated source* and not original source?
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