RE: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-14 Thread Ted Drake
[WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus The discussion on "CSS Driven?" prompted me to query the group on something that has been bothering me for some time; namely, of all the templates available on the web, there are very few that address the academic syllabus--despite the fact

Re: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-14 Thread Terrence Wood
Paula Petrik said: > Using seems to pose difficulties. What difficulties does the caption pose? This is an interesting point because, in my experience, people have issues with captions *only* becuase they are used to using a heading when preparing documents in Word which doesn't have caption's.

Re: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Bert Doorn
Tables are only frowned upon when they are used to mark up data that is not even remotely tabular, simply to achieve visual layout. Yep, especially when nested :-) Just today I came across a site that nests tables up to 9 levels deep. With a menu of 6 links that uses 5.5kB of code. They were

Re: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Paula Petrik wrote: For example, I have been including a table on the schedule page of the course sites to delineate what's to be done when because it seems to be tabular data--"week" in one column and "work" (of various kinds) in another. (Yes, I have lived in fear of the Table Police.) I hav

RE: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Noone
Paula Petrik Sent: Wednesday, 14 December 2005 4:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus The discussion on "CSS Driven?" prompted me to query the group on something that has been bothering me for some time; namely, of all the templates available on

[WSG] CSS and the University Syllabus

2005-12-13 Thread Paula Petrik
The discussion on "CSS Driven?" prompted me to query the group on something that has been bothering me for some time; namely, of all the templates available on the web, there are very few that address the academic syllabus--despite the fact that there are thousands (millions?) of syllabi on