Hi, On 2/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have to read any dictionary or the spec to agree with you > Geoff. Structure in and of itself IS semantic to an extent.
I think you are taking that too far - imagine trying to create the look of a newspaper on the web, with blocks of text that break off at specific points to continue in the next column, where the blocks themselves are more or less randomly distributed. Does the end of one DIV in that case tell you anything whatsoever about the content? Often it isn't even the end of a word!
If I were trying to create the /look/ of anything, I'd be more concerned the CSS than the markup, but to answer your main question, I think the markup can tell us a lot about the document itself. The content may be represented visually as columns, but in the markup I can easily understand the relationship: <div id="foo"> <p>foo</p> <p>foo</p> <p>foo</p> </div> Regardless of how you present this example visually--as a single column or as three columns, I can easily see these paragraphs are somehow directly related. Through the use of the section tag combined with ID's you could expand that meaning. Simply, it conveys something about the document.
The physical structure of a page will often be entirely different to the logical structure
This is true, of course, but at the end of the day both versions still have some meaning, depending on context. -- Best regards, Mike Wilson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
