Ruby on Rails Monday, August 30, 2010

On 30 August 2010 18:02, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>> On 30 August 2010 16:44, Chris Mear <chrismear@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> much more complex tasks but my mind seems to have gone blank and
>>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-b-element
>>>
>>> Everything old is new again.
>>
>> Though actually I think my use case is not such as described there, it
>> being a list of column names (bold) and values, generated by a Rails
>> scaffold some years ago.
>
> Then you absolutely should not be using <b>.  Use something semantic
> instead, or if your design supports it, recast the whole thing into a
> <table> and use <th> and <td> (which is what I'd normally do).  The
> semantics are tabular, so a <table> element would be quite appropriate.

As I said before, I agree entirely. But as I also said before it is a
little used admin page and so improving the aesthetics of the html is
not the most important job at the moment.

Colin

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