Re: [WSG] Marking up a Calendar
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:42 AM, 8bits Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We currently have a project that includes a calendar in the design. The dilemma I currently have, is what is the best way to mark the calendar up? Should we use tables, or is it more semantically correct these days to use an unordered list? A table every time. A day on a calendar recieves meaning from the table (month), the row (week), and the column (day) that it is in, and IMO a table is the only sensible way to reperesent such complex relationships between data. If you use tables make sure it still makes sense on browsers that don't render tables (some mobile phones, lynx, etc) If you use css don't hide anything in css that should be in the content! I've seen some examples of css-based calendars where there are no dates, day numbers, etc in the markup (they used css and assumed list behaviour to generate day numbers) .. I think that is a bad idea ... Dates on a calendar are important content that should never be hidden from users even if their browser doesn't support the css or behaviours being used. ...also... If its for public events you could add a bit of hCalendar ... to make it more useful ... (eg people being able to import the events into calendar software without retyping, search and aggregation tools being able to see them as events, etc) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Marking up a Calendar
8bits Media wrote: We currently have a project that includes a calendar in the design. The dilemma I currently have, is what is the best way to mark the calendar up? Should we use tables, or is it more semantically correct these days to use an unordered list? I'd be very interested to here peoples thoughts on the matter. Thanks, Nick Lazar 8bits Media To me a calendar is columns and rows of data, so a table works fine. Bruce bkdesign solutions *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
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theres a good standards based calendar tut here: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/a_css_styled_calendar/ -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
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There's a few different opinions out there, but I think I agree with the responses from people on the list, tables make more sense. I found this example of a calendar marked up using a list http://www.cssnewbie.com/list-based-css-calendar/ but I think I'll be using a table in this instance. Nick. On 6 Aug 2008, at 09:16, kevin mcmonagle wrote: theres a good standards based calendar tut here: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/a_css_styled_calendar/ -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Marking up a Calendar
Definitely a table for a calendar, like: table captionAugust 2008/caption thead tr th scope=colSun/th th scope=colMon/th th scope=colTue/th th scope=colWed/th th scope=colThu/th th scope=colFri/th th scope=colSat/th /tr /thead tbody tr td1/td td2/td you get the idea. We would mark up a calendar as a list only if we weren't planning displaying the dates based on the day of the week. Like a funky futuristic calendar. A time line would be marked up as a list for sure. Joseph R. B. Taylor /Designer / Developer/ -- Sites by Joe, LLC /Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design/ Phone: (609) 335-3076 Fax: (866) 301-8045 Web: http://sitesbyjoe.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce wrote: 8bits Media wrote: We currently have a project that includes a calendar in the design. The dilemma I currently have, is what is the best way to mark the calendar up? Should we use tables, or is it more semantically correct these days to use an unordered list? I'd be very interested to here peoples thoughts on the matter. Thanks, Nick Lazar 8bits Media To me a calendar is columns and rows of data, so a table works fine. Bruce bkdesign solutions *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
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A table is a good option for static calendars. i.e a grid. On the flip side, using a list based calendar, you'll be able to present it in different ways by altering the style rules for the elements, e.g as a pseudo-grid, a list etc etc. And of course, there's no reason why you can't do both options - the data used in the calendar is separate to the HTML, right ? HTH J On Wednesday 06 August 2008 10:43:49 8bits Media wrote: There's a few different opinions out there, but I think I agree with the responses from people on the list, tables make more sense. I found this example of a calendar marked up using a list http://www.cssnewbie.com/list-based-css-calendar/ but I think I'll be using a table in this instance. Nick. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
