- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:52:40 -0400
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Dmitry Turin wrote: >> I offer (@chart=none by default) >> >> <table CHART="PIE"> [Snip!] >> </table> >> which display chart as pie __instead of table__ with numerical data. > > Why would you want to define how data is *presented* in the a markup > language that should just be preoccupied with semantics and *content*? > If anything, this sort of thing should be handled via CSS or similar. Yeah, you could use XBL 2.0, some scripting and the <canvas> element (or SVG, if the browser supports it). Doing things like pie charts directly in markup would only make HTML more complicated to implement in a user agent.
Received on Saturday, 28 July 2007 01:53:16 UTC