- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:29:20 -0700
- To: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- CC: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
Ben 'Cerbera' Millard wrote: > > Peter Krantz wrote: >> Currently tree tables in HTML < 5 are created in various ways. I have >> seen them done by server generating tables in tables and positioned >> divs with javascript. One thing these solutions have in common is that >> the markup does not reflect the relationships between items. > > These are the things we need links to. Pictures of operating systems > where the interface is built without using HTML are less relevant than > actual use cases of heirarchical tables published in HTML. > > My ongoing research into tables as used on the web (see signature) have > found heirarchical tables do exist in HTML. Sometimes it is left to > indention to indicate the heirarchy, sometimes empty cells are inserted, > sometimes headers+id are used in an attempt to "patch up" the HTML4 > header search algorithm. > > Sadly, many of the heirarchical tables I found were fossilised in PDFs > or buried in ASCII art. Perhaps they would be HTML if the authors had an > authoring tool which made it easy? I have not e-mailed their authors > about this but everyone is free to help spread the workload. > > -- > Ben 'Cerbera' Millard > Collections of Interesting Data Tables > <http://sitesurgeon.co.uk/tables/readme.html> > > > I am not sure what "hierarchical table" means exactly. In any case here is a table that describes Harmonia's (my GUI toolkit for the D language) tree of classes (hierarchy per se): http://harmonia.terrainformatica.com/map.html Document created by using my WYSIWYG editor as by hand it is hard to maintain such html. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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