Quoting Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
A significant number of photographers regard a 'collection of photographs' as being 'the work', and the way that work is shown (the relationship between one image and it's adjacent images, and indeed, to the whole) is of paramount importance. What I'm saying is best illustrated by considering the case where the photographer is having a show at a gallery : he doesn't just throw the images at the wall (so to speak) - he spends ages deciding which image goes where, etc etc. My point is that, in this case, Patrick's excellent rule of thumb that " moving cells around changes the meaning of the data" applies to this case also, and the work can be considered as tabular data. As I said, it <em>is</em> subtle.
I think, though, that this is stretching the idea of "tabular". As I said, the source order itself can be used to determine sequence. And, if it's spatial relationship (what's above, what's below, etc...rather than just what came before/after), then HTML is probably not a suitable language to define that relationship in a satisfactory and semantically unambiguous manner - perhaps other technologies like SVG (provided they can encode the relationship in a non-visual manner as well) may be more suited, not sure.
In any case, I'd say that this is stretching both the idea of what is "tabular" and of what can be unequivocally represented by HTML alone. It's also a slippery slope because, following the same rationale as a photographer, a designer doesn't just "throw text and images on the webpage", but carefully chooses their placement/layout...so a designer may also claim that, because they spatial relationship conveys meaning, a table would be appropriate for their layout.
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