Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 10/17/07 07:21

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Bernhard Sturm
<sturmnixspam@datacomm.ch> writing in news:ff2pnr$kah$1@aioe.org:

>
> Hi Group,
>
> I wonder what you professionals think about this site:
>
> http://test.montessori-viki.ch/
>
> The reason why I ask is that I have created the site from a layout a
> graphic designer I am working with has created. After I finished the
> site, we had an argument about pixel accuracy of the layout (ufff...).
>
> She asked me to drop the list-style menu for a paragraph(!) because
this
> is the only way to have a common line-height:140% for all the text on
> the site! I was a bit confused, because I told here that she is mixing
> semantic with formal representation, and this wouldn't work when
viewing
> the site with other UAs (print, handheld, text-reader). She told me
that
> there are so few people out there using such exotic things that she
> doesn't care about as long as the visual impression is pixel
precise...
>

See http://www.localmiamionline.com/statistics.html

<quote>10 million Americans surf from cell phones or personal digital
assistants (PDAs). Of the 19.1 million users owning a PDA, 5 million
access the Internet with those devices, and among the 67.2 million
online users that own a cell phone, 5.8 million access the Internet with
those devices. - ComScore Networks</quote>

You might also want to point her to a recent thread about Target being
sued in Federal court. Montessori schools are known for their organic
method of teaching (only wooden toys), and I am sure would be horrified
if their web site was not accessible to a visually impaired student, or
parent seeking information.

> She calls herself webdesigner, but I said, that such an approach has
> nothing to do with webdesign.
> What do you think? Would it be okay to have a menu structured in a
> single paragraph (p) truncated by line-breaks (br)? What are the
> pros/cons for such an approach?
>

You could always go over her head and directly to the client. Maybe the
client isn't as thick as she seems to be.

--
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