From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Efd8W-0004me-An for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:57:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAPCv3kZ029992; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:57:03 GMT Received: from athena.thinkhost.com (mailpipe2.athena.thinkhost.com [70.85.50.159]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAPCv2I2031444 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:57:02 GMT Received: from vega (sr-251.srge01.resnet.ubc.ca [128.189.129.251]) by athena.thinkhost.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAPCtu8v040481 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:55:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aaron@aaronshi.com) From: "Aaron Shi" To: Subject: RE: [www-redesign] Current status Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:02:25 -0800 Message-ID: <002d01c5f1c0$7be4bc50$6402a8c0@vega> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: www-redesign@gentoo.org Reply-to: www-redesign@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcXxnNy1S215u8dUTtGjISAON8DYgwAIgCUw In-Reply-To: <4386CFCD.1030400@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on athena.thinkhost.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: ca472534-c30c-4827-9c9f-8b076d01444e X-Archives-Hash: f934223c8ed9c3ffcc51f2a44e03215d > Also, see how I'm doing the news items with divs instead of > tables? The > use of tables should be limited to tabular data unless > necessary. If you > want to play around with what I have there now try to stick > with divs. > If you we can't figure out how to make it acceptable that way we can > revert to tables as a last resort. I would say that since tables are used to display relationships in data and there are relationships in our news table (horizontally: in a row the date/author is related to the news posting and together this is one instance; vertically: column of date/author, column of news postings), it makes some sense to use tables provided that the posting is only a short abstract i.e. a few lines long. Divs would work, but not sure if it structurally makes sense. If using divs, we'd have to set it up like a table to get the vertical alignments correctly. One div per news item as a container, then date/author in one div floated to the left (width specified value, so we don't get the horizontal white gap in between this and the abstract) and news posting in another div floated to the right (width auto). Have not tried this but it could work. If anything funny happens e.g. the news items containers overlap, the style="clear:both" br may need to be used. Aaron -- www-redesign@gentoo.org mailing list