Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jachin Sheehy
It's just that you lose any semantic value in using a table without the . Using the table with currently limits your layout options. Using means you can retain a bit of semantic meaning (by linking the name, icon and info at least) and get your styling right. This thread is getting a bit like a

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jad Madi
if it's a must to use then I have to sacrifice layout by using Patrick's code or sacrifice semantic by using ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on pos

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 30 Oct 2005, at 11:43 PM, Jad Madi wrote: I'm not sure if i'm going to use defining trick, what I know about standards markup and symantic, is to use the tag by it's meaning rather than by How it look like, If that is so, can you do any better with your class names than 'pinktext' and 'bo

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jachin Sheehy
Jad, If you were going to use a table for displaying users, then Patrick's sample markup is the way to go. As far as I can see, the sample code you return uses the table purely for layout purposes. Whilst using an unordered list is the semantically correct way to mark-up the list of posts, puttin

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Kenny Graham
Ok, I was basing my last post on the pdf. Things change a bit if you're throwing in a list of posts and stuff. > I agree with Jachin. The most semantic way of doing it would be: > > > Name > Info > > Name > Info > > ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Kenny Graham
I agree with Jachin. The most semantic way of doing it would be: Name Info Name Info ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the li

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jad Madi
Here is the actual markup for table NOTE: I'm not using because I don't want it to appear visually, but I'm not sure if that would break standards or not, so please advise. Name Post # 1 Post # 2 Post # 3 Post # 4 Post # 5 Vote * ** *** *

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Jad Madi wrote: I'm not sure if i'm going to use defining trick, what I know about standards markup and symantic, is to use the tag by it's meaning rather than by How it look like, thats why i was consufed if it's a list or table, because I'm listing users , and at the same time I have more than

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jad Madi
I'm not sure if i'm going to use defining trick, what I know about standards markup and symantic, is to use the tag by it's meaning rather than by How it look like, thats why i was consufed if it's a list or table, because I'm listing users , and at the same time I have more than two cells, and mo

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jachin Sheehy
A definition list would be the best way to represent such data. Can even be styled in the tabular layout in your example. Scott McDaniel has an interesting article at http://www.scottmcdaniel.com/?p=33 in which he undertakes a layout similar to that you have proposed (example at http://www.scottm

Re: [WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Jad Madi wrote: guys, what do you think if this kind of organizing data http://easyhttp.net/files/1.pdf - 17KB is it tabular data? or a list? At the moment it's tabular data, but the layout is not reflecting that...it's a layout table. Tabular would be something like IconNameDescriptio

[WSG] is this a tabular data?

2005-10-30 Thread Jad Madi
guys, what do you think if this kind of organizing data http://easyhttp.net/files/1.pdf - 17KB is it tabular data? or a list? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for s