[Bug 11494] New: I would like a simple direct way to say that a table, or all tables in a document, should be drawn using single lines. I produce puzzles as a business, so the tables that I have on my webpages are crossword diagrams, Sudoku diagrams, chess diagrams, and

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11494

           Summary: I would like a simple direct way to say that a table,
                    or all tables in a document, should be drawn using
                    single lines.  I produce puzzles as a business, so the
                    tables that I have on my webpages are crossword
                    diagrams, Sudoku diagrams, chess diagrams, and
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
I would like a simple direct way to say that a table, or all tables in a
document, should be drawn using single lines.  I produce puzzles as a
business, so the tables that I have on my webpages are crossword diagrams,
Sudoku diagrams, chess diagrams, and so forth.    When these are drawn using
double lines, shading, 3-dimensional effects, or other fanciful decoration
this detracts from the purpose and the content of the diagram.    It also
wastes
a huge amount of space.  The double lines are 6 pixels wide, instead of the 2
pixels for a normal line.  For a 9x9 Sudoku, that's 40 wasted pixels. The
reader needs that spce for wing the puzzle.  For a large format 25x25
crossword, that's 104 wasted pixels in each direction.    Even if the table
contains ordinary text, the ornate borders distract and detract from the
contents.

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Received on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:48:29 UTC