>It's about walking a fine (sane) line, and in many cases realising that the semantic structures offered by (x)html are actually quite limited, and you >won't always find the exact right set of elements that perfectly fit your real-world content...so it turns into a question of triage.
I think this is where Xhtml has it's (eventual) power. Since it's extensible, you could use your own DTD, which has extra tags and markup which contains the semantic meaning you need. Then via CSS and javascript, you can alter/style the data anyway you need for the client. I believe eventually this is where shared documents over a network will end up (the web). Ryan Nichols Graphic Design / Web Development Matrixwebs.com 1.800.711.2829 18330 Sutter Blvd. Morgan Hill, CA 95037 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Semantics of Breadcrumb "you are here" links Sean Naden wrote: > er, maybe it's my 'listless' disposition but why would you put a > breadcrumb in a list? The usual > seperators seem ideal ...except that it does not, intrinsically, have any structure or semantic meaning if it's just a line of text with an arbitrary character as separator. Using a list attempts to give some meaning and relationship to the various "bits" that make up the breadcrumb. However, it's true that one needs to be able to draw the line, and not get too carried away with using lists. Otherwise everything starts looking like a list (in the same way that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail): a page of text could arguably be seen as an ordered list of paragraphs/lists/images, even individual words could be ordered lists of individual characters, etc. It's about walking a fine (sane) line, and in many cases realising that the semantic structures offered by (x)html are actually quite limited, and you won't always find the exact right set of elements that perfectly fit your real-world content...so it turns into a question of triage. Patrick H. Lauke _____________________________________________________ re*dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
