[UPHPU] Validation

[Mac Newbold]

Today at 10:31am, Daniel C. said:

> On 6/5/06, Mac Newbold <mac at macnewbold.com> wrote:
>> I have yet to see something you can do with a div that you can't do with a
>> table
>
> How about:
>
> Accurately mark up non-tabular data.

That only depends on your definitions of "accurately mark up" and 
"non-tabular data". Mine are probably a little different from yours, so we 
would both be right using our own definitions.

> Easily serve well-formatted content to PDAs and cell phones.

And why can't a table do that? If PDA and cell phone browsers properly 
implement the standards for tables, it should work fine, no? (Unless the 
design makes assumptions about screen size etc. that don't hold on the 
smaller screens)

> Semantically group a number of elements.

I would say that a row or a column is a semantically grouped set of 
elements. In the "spreadsheet" view of a table, it is exactly that - rows 
and columns are grouped by their semantic function/purpose.

> I don't think any of these are contrived examples, but you can't do
> them with tables.

Mac

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