Alternative HTML output

[Philip King]

On Thursday, 27 January, 2005, A Borg said:

>On 26.01.2005, at 18:46, Philip King wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, 26 January, 2005, A Borg said:
>>
>>>If the generic html structure was clear
>>
>>The table structure is quite clear, it's just not the
>>structure I want ;-)
>
>Sorry, clear was the wrong term, your "lean-and-mean" was the
>one I wanted to express. What I was "envisioning" was rather a
>tableless structure which with one css file attached would
>result in the omni-outline-resembling presentation, and with
>another result in the format you're requesting.

I see what you're getting at, this is an approach which would work
well in the modern browser. But I'm after a reasonable presentation
without the requirement of CSS and a modern browser. I'm still
convinced that for straightforward nested outlines the list is the
appropriate structure.

What would happen to your tableless structure when the CSS isn't
available? The ZenGarden example is tableless but still built within
a meaningfull and correct HTML structure which is perfectly readable
without the CSS. Something like that would certainly be better than
tables. However, I see plenty of "tableless structure" which uses
little else than divs and spans, which is as much use as wet socks.

Mr Küffner's post is interesting.

 - Philip