My hovercraft is full of eels ;o) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 7 sinz Sent: 05 June 2004 12:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions
i wasnt talking to you ;) >From: "Mike Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "WSG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions >Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:47:12 +0100 > >It's not tabular data, it's a linear stream of images with captions. One >way >of looking at it is to take the thumbs and associated text and jumble the >sequence; do that with a proper table grid and you'll have a mess since the >row and columnar formats will be meaningless. > >For instance -- > > Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun > Cost 10 20 20 10 20 20 20 > Unit 3 5 2 6 4 1 7 > >Cost/Sat = 20. It's position must remain fixed to make sense, although it >may possibly remain true in another location. Incorporate the Unit value of >the matrix and moving anything invalidates the results. This is a table; >rows and columns point to specific cells; rows and columns have meaning. >Move the cell values within the grid and the results are nonsense. > >Not so with a sequence of images (unless, of course, you're ordering them >alphabetically but that's not the issue). > >Make sense? > >Mike Pepper >Accessible Web Developer (after a great night's sleep) >www.seowebsitepromotion.com >www.gawds.org > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Rick Faaberg >Sent: 05 June 2004 05:30 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions > > >On 6/4/04 9:10 PM "Nick Gleitzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out: > > > A parting thought: does a series of thumbnail/caption pairs actually >qualify > > as tabular data - thus leaving me feeling better about giving up and >using >a > > table to lay the bloody thing out anyway? > >That was my first thought when I began to read about your angst. > >It's tabular data - deal with that way. Get it over with. > >I'm no authority. > >Rick Faaberg > >***************************************************** >The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ >See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >for some hints on posting to the list & getting help >***************************************************** > > > >***************************************************** >The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ >See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >for some hints on posting to the list & getting help >***************************************************** > _________________________________________________________________ Smart Saving with ING Direct – earn 5.25% p.a. variable rate: http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/clk;7249209;8842331;n?http://www.ingdirect.com. au/burst6offer.asp?id=8 ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
