[Thunar-dev] Website draft - (X)HTML Standards

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Sat Sep 3 12:10:21 CEST 2005


Jens Luedicke schrieb:
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 
> [draft snipped]
> 
> 
>>>Of course, I know it's just a draft. Anyway, I thought this might be
>>>helpful.
> 
> 
> I like the suggestions.
> 
> 
>>>That's it for now. If there are any questions left, feel free to ask
>>>them. If you need help in cleaning up or adjust the draft for better
>>>support of the W3C standards, please let me know. We'd certainly find a
>>>solution.
> 
> 
> 6. don't use <table> for non-tabular data. use <div> instead and arrange
> them via CSS.

Screenhots (<table/> currently is used here) for example are kind of a
listing. Even more, they are a list with a label for each screenshot.
Right? Well, then, I could imagine something like this:

  <dl id="Screenshots">
    <dt><label for="s_locationbar">The location bar:</label></dt>
    <dd><img id="s_locationbar" src="path/to/screenshot_thumb.png"
        alt="Screenshot: Location bar"/></dd>
    <dt><label for="s_pathbar">The path bar:</label></dt>
    <dd><img id="s_pathbar" src="path/to/screenshot1_thumb.png"
        alt="Screenshot: Path bar"/></dd>
  </dl>

This at least wraps the table into more descriptive elements than
<table/> or <div/>.

7. Personally, I absolutely dislike colons in headers (like "Status:").
   This of course is nothing more than a cosmetic topic and, well, then
   it comes down to personal taste.

- Jannis



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