- From: Patrick Griffiths <w3c@htmldog.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:10:10 -0000
- To: "Jewett, Jim J" <jim.jewett@eds.com>, "Stephen Brooks" <sb@stephenbrooks.org>, <www-html@w3.org>
> Personally, I find the grid version more meaningful, because > I won't waste time looking for a connection between the > various subelements of a grid or gridrow. I think this whole talk of grids is completely off the mark. Hypothetically, HTML should not be seen as a visual thing at all which is particularly clear when thinking of it (XHTML) as XML. A blind user for example isn't going to care about a grid - wherever something is on a page they still need to read through the page in a linear manner. If you have something like: <div id="header"></div> <div id="navigation"></div> <div id="content"></div> <div id="footer"></div> You can have a page that is divided into logical sections without implying anything visual. Using CSS you can then place these divisions wherever you want on a page. If these elements were placed in some kind of 'grid' it would imply a specific order in which they are visually presented. ---------------- Patrick Griffiths (PTG) www.htmldog.com/ptg/ www.htmldog.com
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