I'm thinking about writing a simple little program for an online calendar. I know there are some already out there, but none of them have been quite as simple as I'd like.
Programming aside, I was wondering whether a calendar is considered proper use of a table. Or should I code all the little calendar days with CSS?
Megan posted this at 14:17—21st November 2006.
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I would say that it is a table. Doesn't really make sense to float a bunch of divs. Divs really have no semantic meaning. The table defines a relationship between cells. Or you could do it as a list. That might be best actually. What is a calendar? It's a list of dates.... except that the dates all have to line up, which makes it more like a table.
It will be nice when the semantic web gets going and maybe we'll have a standard set of markup for stuff like this.
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 14:35—21st November 2006.
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A calendar would be proper use of a grid, if that existed. Table is near enough.
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andy206uk posted this at 16:07—21st November 2006.
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I'm actually working on a calendar app myself and I use tables for my calendars (just make sure to use semantically correct code like etc to keep them accessible).
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JeevesBond posted this at 21:26—21st November 2006.
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I'd agree that this is an acceptable use of a table, the clincher IMO is that it has headings. The month, and days plus anything else that should be in the heading area.
A list doesn't have any equivalent to a tables ''.
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Dragon of Ice posted this at 22:40—22nd November 2006.
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While I agree this is definitely an acceptable use of a table (i think the simplebits guy had an article on this, can't seem to find it) I also saw someone use lists to build a calendar and this made it extremely flexible for things like mobile. I don't know what your needs are, but just thought I'd mention this.
Ayy... i'm all over the place. This is neither article i mentioned previously (I can't seem to find either) but it is relavent:
http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php/blog/comments/a_css_styled_calendar/