Re: CSS & tables

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 16:13 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 8:15 PM +0100 5/18/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 14:48 -0400, tedd wrote: > > > > > I think the next big thing will be an argument over meaning. :-) > >> > >I don't mean using id attributes that appear to have meaning, but using > >the proper tags to mark up content. That's things like <abbr> and > ><acronym> tags for abbreviations and acronyms respectively, tables for > >tabular data and lists for list data, quote tags for quotations, etc. > > Yes, I agree -- one of my pet peeves is people using alt tags for > tool-tips when that's best served by the title tag. > > >What you mention does have some merit to it though, as microformats are > >an idea to use the class attribute to classify data in certain ways, > >like <span class="date"> or <span class="author"> etc, > >although I'm not > >sure how well these work! > > That's kind of what I was talking about -- but I'm much more simple. > > It seems to me that things like header, navigation, content, and > footer would be pretty standardized. However, in some sites the > header called the banner, footer is called copyright, navigation is > called side-bar, and content is called wrapper or something even less > semantic. > > When the simpletons can't agree, then there's not much hope for the > complexetons. :-) > > Cheers, > > tedd > Well, headers are pretty much dealt with by the <hx> tags. I'd like to think that as long as a div had a class or id containing the word foot or nav (even as part of a larger word) then it might be interpreted a bit more intelligently by the UA, but I think it may just be a silent dream of mine for now! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk