[thelist] NN4.x and IE4.x

[Gregory Wostrel]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 06:25  PM, rudy wrote:
> you end up writing abominations such as
>
>    <div id="main">
>      <div id="wrapper">
>        <div id="content">
>          <div id="navheader"></div>
>            <p class="foo">some content</p>
>        </div>
>      </div>
>    </div>
>


>> And is <div> something to be avoided now?
>
> yes
>
> avoid the use of DIV


>> If so, under what circumstances?
>
> all
>
> ;o)
>

Rudy,

In all respect, I think your answer is a little extreme. Don't use DIV 
at all? What else? Don't use CLASS? So how do you propose to identify 
sections of a document for styling? Simply by HTML selectors? Seems a 
little hard to manage a layout that is anything more than basic that 
way. I can understand an answer like yours from the viewpoint of 
strictly structural/semantic coding. But the web isn't just a bunch of 
scientists exchanging documents anymore - it is that and styling and 
presentation and more. There needs to be room for that flexibility.

MHO,

Gregory Wostrel

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