Re: retooling and mental housecleaning

In article <qLnTi.47511$RX.31043@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
William Gill <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dorayme wrote:

OK. What are some of the main things puzzling you? The meaning of
individual elements? How the meaning of some elements are more
specific than others? Which elements have some significant
meaning and which do not?

Bearing in mind I am trying to break bad habits as well as form new
ones, yes. For instance, 15 years ago I never considered my navigation
links as an unordered list, and it probably wasn't important since
several structural approaches rendered the same effect. Now with the
various non-visual UA's it impacts how a page is "rendered." So it is
important enough for me to readdress my navigation bars. On the other
hand, appropriate use of H# elements has never been an issue.

How much effort to put into avoiding
basically meaningless containers like divs?


I don't want to be a zealot about it, I think I can decide when a div, a
table, or even a span is OK, but I do think a more semantic approach in
general will prevent unnecessary div propagation.

I was trying to pin you down to some concrete problems you may be
having so that a discussion of them might be productive for you
and me and all. But I can see you are not in a mood to be
specific. You have *no* problem now with unordered lists. Fine!
<g>

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dorayme
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