Re: [WSG] Gallery markup

[Chris Moncus]

(X)HTML is so dualistic sometimes. Meaning that there are so many ways 
that work fine but yet they are still not correct. In your case, the 
extremes argue "no tables, period" vs "tables within tables within 
tables". The same extreme views apply to lists as well. The best use of 
(X)HTML is to determine what it is that you're looking at and then use 
the appropriate code, of course, to standards. If you have a heading 
and several sub items, use lists. If you have a phrase and sub-info 
about it, use definition lists. If you have tablular data, use a table. 
I think what you have is a group of single items that seem to fall in a 
table-like structure.

Now, in my opinion this would be a good use of ALA's "Practical CSS 
Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques" at 
http://alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/. Take a look at their use 
of div's to create the same layout you have.

  doit4Jesus,
  Chris Moncus
  chrismoncus.com
  AIM: HPPChrisMoncus

On Jan 4, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Collin Davis wrote:
Hey everybody,
I just asked for some advice on css-d, regarding gallery pages, very 
similar to www.strombergarchitectural.com/products.php - the same 
pages I asked for help on with cleaner, more semantic code on this 
list not too long ago.  The advice I received from several people, and 
agreed with, was to uses lists, which I have done.  However, two 
people on css-d commented about the “incorrect use of lists” there – 
one person suggested it was tabular data, and should use tables.  My 
thoughts (and some of the thoughts expressed on this list) were that 
semantically, lists showed the association between the images and 
text.  Tables wouldn’t do this.  Also, lists are just easier for me to 
use than tables, and tables create more code weight than do lists.  
Anybody have thoughts on this?

Thanks,
 
Collin Davis - ACE, MCP
Web Architect
Stromberg Architectural Products
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