[thelist] skipping 'hx' levels is bad

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 17 19:32:11 CST 2002


> From: Allie Micka <allie at pajunas.com>
>
> Again, coming into this conversation late but hoping to drag it on
> even longer ;)

i'd love to, but rudy won't let me... especially since he left me 
dangling on a few of my questions...

[...] 
> Let me try this one on though - if you're concerned about some sort of
> heirarchy, why not use nested lists?  Try that one on -- I'd like to
> see what you all think!

that leaves you with 3 kinds of lists: ordered, unordered, definition...

unordered and ordered lists result in bullets or numbers/letters... 
you'd need to remove this with CSS, and for non-CSS browsers it 
would still appear...  also, these lists are to be used to display lists 
of information, and an article doesn't really count as a list of 
information -- its outline might, but the h# elements can act as that 
outline (if you want, but as rudy says, you aren't required, but then, 
why not just style <strong> for headers?)

definition lists don't have bullets/numbers/letters, but each list item 
is supposed to consist of two parts -- a term and a description...  
while there's nothing saying you *can't* use them for that, you'd 
certainly be imparting the wrong structure to your document, which 
is ultimately what this discussion is all about -- do you want to 
impart structure, or just use the HTML for styling...

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