- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:07:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adam Kuehn <akuehn@nc.rr.com>
- Cc: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Adam Kuehn wrote:
>
> As I said, my own opinion is that I don't think that rendering order
> is purely a matter of presentation. The Declaration of Independence
> (to choose a random historical document) does not make any sense when
> read in random order.
I completely agree that there are cases where it wouldn't make much sense
to reorder the presentation.
But look at CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/
Today there is a Google search box at the bottom of the left column. Above
it is a "services" box with four links.
Whether the Google search box comes before or after the Services box is
completely a stylistic matter.
Another example in the same page: at the bottom today, there are three
boxes under a section titled "From our Partners". They each give a partner
name, followed by some headlines from that news source, followed by a link
to allow subscribing to that news source. The structure could be something
like:
<section>
<h>Partners</h>
<dl>
<dt>Time</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li><a href="...">...</a></li>
...
</ul>
<p><a href="...">Subscribe to Time</a></li>
</dd>
...
</dl>
</section>
Now imagine that the desired rendering has the three partner boxes
together, but the subscribe links put in a block on the far right.
How would you do it without moving things out of the structure of the
document during presentation?
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