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Re: accesskeys and an ordered list starting at 0

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From: Lori K. Brown
Date: Aug 10, 2002 8:56PM

If it quacks like tabular data, and it waddles like tabular data,
then it IS tabular data, and you should use a table. I have to think
that a a table IS in fact the appropriate presentation layout method
in this case. Just because the coding nazis have tried to banish
tables from polite society and the cool people's markup universe
doesn't mean that when a table is the most logical way to do
something, you shouldn't just use a table and get on with your life.
Then all you have to do is use ids, rows and columns markings to
associate your labels to content, and you're done.

Lori Kay Brown
User Interface Engineer
SiteScape, Inc.
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>


-------- Original Message --------

==> From: Tim Luoma < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
==> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:40:40 -0700 (PDT)

So I'm trying to add a page that described the accesskeys on my site
and I am having trouble figuring out how to properly mark it up. The
page is XHTML 1.0 strict and I'm not keen on lowering it.

The accesskeys are 0-9 as suggested at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html and following the
system suggested under "There is also a proposed standard list for
government sites" (since there is no better standard that I am aware
of)

So the question is, do I mark it up as an OL and leave off zero
(since it starts at 1 and can't be legally started at 0) or do I just
mark it as an UL and manually number them, or just give up and throw
them in a table?

Here's what I have so far:

Accesskeys: <ul>

<li>0 = This page</li> <li>1 = not i n use </li> <li>2 =
What&#8216;s New</li> <li>3 = Sitemap</li> <li>4 = Search</li> <li>5
= not in use</li> <li>6 = not in use </li> <li>7 = not in use</li>
<li>8 = not in use</li> <li>9 = Feedback</li> </ul>



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