Ian Hickson wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Joe Hewitt wrote:
> >>
> >> That page has absolutely no semantics whatsoever. It's like the
opposite
> >> of a good web page (as far as valid markup goes).
> >
> > I won't disagree with you. I suppose, based on the content of the
> > documents in question, I was setting myself up for criticism by
> > designing for visual quality and clean html rather than structural
> > integrity.
>
> That's a common mistake. Designing a web page is often seen as a one step
> process: create markup that matches the final look and then use CSS to
> mold the markup into the look.
>
> The "correct" way of writing a web page is a two stage process. First,
> markup your content semantically -- e.g., use <h1> for the main header,
> <p> for paragraphs, <ol> for numbered lists, <blockquote> for sections
> that are quoted from another document and <cite> for titles of references
> (citations).
>
> Then, the second stage, is to write zero, one, or more stylesheets to mold
> the structural markup into whatever shape you actually want it to have.
Unfortuantly there is often need for a third stage. Adjust markup so to fill
the gaps in the css implementation (and sometime css specification).
But it is actually amazing how far you can come using only the first two
stepps in mozilla
/ Jonas Sicking
