From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-11-11T05:21:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] www.ruby-doc.org

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:07:47 +0900, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * JamesBritt (james@jamesbritt.com) wrote:
>> Jim Freeze's presentation at RubyConf 2002 mentioned, among other
>> things, the need for a ruby-docs project and/or general docs web
>> site. I've taken the initiative and created a site at
>> www.ruby-doc.org, so that we now have:
> Cool resource.
> 
> Your HTML (and CSS) leave something to be desired, though.
> 
> Since I think it's important for sites like this to be accessable,
> I've redone the markup for the front page using XHTML strict and
> proper semantic tags rather than your <div> , <span> and <td>
> soup. I'll do the CSS in a bit, then upload it somewhere so you
> can (hopefully) intergrae it back into the site :)

Note that XHTML strict still allows for <div> and <span>. These
tags, in fact, are very useful. (I have an article that I wrote a
while back that I'm getting ready to publish on my website; it uses
<div> quite a bit with CSS2.) My website also uses <div> to separate
the navigation bar (on the left) and the heading (on the top) from
the body of the website, and uses CSS-positioning to keep them in
place. The good thing about the use of <div> over tables for
positioning is that if positioning isn't supported, the work will
(generally) be read in the proper order.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.10 at 15.14.10