Re: table and meter : timeline, timesheet

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
> Olivier GENDRIN wrote:
>>
>> The idea was to allow <meter> into <thead> > <tr> at the same level
>> than <th>, to allow to build timelines, timesheets or multi channel TV
>> programms without using hundreds of table cells.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the problem you are trying to solve, nor why using
> <meter> in the way you describe would be an appropriate solution.  But
> rather than focussing on any potential solution at this stage, it would help
> if you could provide some sort of examples, or perhaps an illustration of
> the kind of table you want to create, in order to explain the use case and
> problems better.

Hi Lachlan, thank you for asking.

I wish to ease the build of timelines like
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/images/timelines/marey_1885.jpg,
http://www.mountpleasantgroupofcemeteries.ca/images/BoardBios/MPGC-BoardTimeline.png,
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bronk/timeline.jpg and
(note the log scale)
http://www.nature.com/bjp/journal/v143/n6/images/0705938f2.gif in pure
semantic HTML, or TV programs like http://www.cesoirtv.com/.

It's doable right now with table, but it needs hundreds of td, and
it's less semantic than with a @interval attribute (using any number
of start/end pairs).


-- 
Olivier G.
http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/