- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:02:44 +0100
- To: "'Orion Adrian'" <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Orion,
> Above you're using CSS to create semantic meaning using presentation.
>
> So how would you represent a light seperator without CSS in a
> user agent that doesn't support it? How would you represent
> it to a blind user?
I completely agree with you. A good example of the use of <separator> is
within the new navigation lists:
<nl>
<label />
<li />
<li />
<separator />
<li />
</nl>
A sighted user is quite used to the extra help that horizontal lines in
menus give them, as a way of keeping one set of options apart from another.
Simply using a CSS border to separate the groups would not actually be
semantically correct, since there *really is* a logical separation of the
items, rather than just a presentational separation. (And the logical
separation is not so strong that we could use two navigational lists.)
As you rightly point out, <separator> now allows us to provide the same
'clues' to blind users.
Regards,
Mark
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