From: "Geoff Pack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thierry wrote (in the linked article, not his post):
DIVs are meaningless and cannot represent the structure of a document
Really?
According to the HTML 3.2 spec, where they first appear:
"DIV elements can be used to structure HTML documents as a hierarchy of
divisions."
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#div
See also:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg29003.html
Hi Geoff,
The problem is with the standard. If one gets too hung up on semantic markup
then there is the risk of bending the logical or implied semantics of an
element to suit ones project. I submit that in the absence of a perfectly
specific semantically correct element for a given task, a DIV becomes, by
default, the logical choice. The world, and everything in it, is a list. The
danger with that thinking, of course, is that everything in the world is
data and can, therefore, be described in the cells of a table :-)
--
Al Sparber - PVII
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Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets
Authors: "42nd Street: Mastering the Art of CSS Design"
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