- From: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:19:02 +0100
- To: "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: "HTMLWG" <public-html@w3.org>
James Graham wrote: > Nathan Youngman wrote: >> I would describe a hierarchical table as [...] a tree of data that also >> has columns. > I believe this is the kind of use-case that is supposed to be addressed by > the <datagrid> element [1]. > > [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#datagrid That's an interactive form element: [[[ The datagrid element represents an interactive representation of tree, list, or tabular data. ]]] So is it suitable for presenting data? It seems to need rather a lot of markup to populate it without scripting. It is quite different from how authors are currently making hierarchical tables in HTML, too. The degradation in pre-HTML5 UAs looks like it will be quite undesirable compared to <table>, which already works. Making existing content natively accessible would give a more immediate improvement to users than requiring all these tables to be rebuilt. If we can't do that, we should try to make the retrofitting as straightforward and non-destructive as possible otherwise authors simply won't do it. It looks like a great solution for filling in complex forms, though. :-) -- Ben 'Cerbera' Millard Collections of Interesting Data Tables <http://sitesurgeon.co.uk/tables/readme.html>
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