Posted by Joe (GKF) on 10/10/06 23:14

In article <28a3$452aff6e$40cba7c0$24302@NAXS.COM>,
lws4art@centralva.net says...
> Joe wrote:
> > I was spouting off the other day, telling someone the "right" (alt.html
> > approved) way of doing a navigation menu. The conversation went like
> > this:
> > ME: '... so your navigation menu is really a list of links and you
> > should mark them up like that'
> > THEM: '???'
> > ME: 'Like in a book, you have the contents page at the front, directing
> > you to where you want to go.'
> > THEM: 'Oh, you mean the "Table of Contents" '
> > ME: (cleverly seeing the trap and deftly avoiding it) 'Sort of, but on
> > the web, it's more like a menu at a restaurant.'
> > THEM: 'So how would you mark up a restaurant menu then?'
> > ME: (thinks)'Bugger'
> >
> > Can someone supply me with a happy ending?
> >
>
> Menus is usually tabular data with two columns, the entrée and the
> price, hence a *table*. Your navigation menu is more like a shopping
> *list* with just a *list* of links to pages on your site.
>
Nice one.

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