In my option, it's up to your definition. You've done a good job of defining a forum as a table (and as a list), so.... maybe you should decide based on issues of usability and practicality, instead. Will you have blind users with screen readers, who'll have an awful time reading through a table? Is it practical, time-wise, for you to code this as a list?
I think that some plain-jane web sites could be rationalized as tables: navigation elements in one column, important content in the middle column, and links on the right. Rows, if more than one, indicate degrees of importance. Of course, no one ever puts row and column headers on a site's table... One question: is this forum served out by a database? In that case, you could easily serve it out in multiple page templates, depending on usage and the reader's requirements. that's my 2 cents, depreciated every day. --CC On 12/27/06, Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm going to be creating the front-end for a forum, and I was > wondering if people had opinions on whether a forum was tabular data, > or a list. The way it is planned, we will have a THREAD TITLE, STARTED > BY, REPLIES, and LAST POST heading, and then we will have the obvious > bits of data underneath. > > Personally, I think a table is the semantically correct way to do > this, because I think any other method loses the association with the > headings and the data. > > However, I can also see the argument for a list, because it is a list > of threads. I think it is not a good way to create it, though, because > as soon as you lose CSS these lists mean nothing... > > Perhaps I'm missing an elegant solution, so if you guys have any > ideas, or opinions on whether or not it is tabular data I'd like to > hear them. > > Regards, > Blake > > -- > Australian Web Designer – www.blakehaswell.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
