Not sure web users would care a whole lot if the heading was prices or price
list.
Thanks for the debate chaps; I have struggled over this issue on and off for
some time and this has helped me to define a simple rule which works for me.
[The rule] If the list has multiple columns check because more than likely
it should really be a table; if the table has only one column, check because it
may be just a list.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Enslin
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Tables for product=>price list
James, sounds like you've answered your own question/doubt then? Perhaps you
should head your 'list' as <h1>Prices</h1> and not <h1>Price List</h1>?
2008/8/11 James Jeffery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Disagree.
Many shopping carts on the web have product lists or summarys marked up in
a table. When you look at it from the point of view where one column is the
products and the other is the price, and another is VAT per product its more
semantic to do it that way.
Again, just because something is a list does not mean it should be in a
list. Take for example students grades. The school needs to list the name, the
subject, the expected grade, the outcome (30/30) and a percentage (100%). You
could easily say its a list of students grades, because it is, but you are not
going to put that into a list because it would be wrong to.
James
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
A list is the most appropriate for a list.
The fact that "price list" states "list" DOES mean a list should be used -
when you use the term "list" that's what the user then expects it to be.
If you don't want to use a list (for whatever pedantic reason) then don't
call it one. If you want to use a table, call it a table.
Not using a list when a list is appropriate is just as bad as not using a
table when a table is appropriate.
On Mon, August 11, 2008 9:31 am, silky wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM, James Jeffery
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In the past I have tryed to avoid tables as much as possible and
>> sometimes
>> going as far as using lists for data that "should" be placed in tables.
>> I am
>> trying to sway away from the 'never use tables' crowd and have started
>> to
>> use them when they need to be used.
>>
>> I am working on a tattoo website and the client wants a list of pricing
>> for
>> tattoos and peircings. Would you say this is a good candidate for a
>> table?
>
> use a table.
>
> those that say 'never use tables' are insane and often think that
> 'css' and 'tables' are mutually exclusive. i ignore those people.
>
> tables are perfectly appropriate for this situation.
>
>
>> Although 'price list' states list, its not to say that a list should be
>> used.
>>
>> Any ideas.
>>
>> James
>
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