- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:22:26 +1000
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: "Robert Burns" <rob@robburns.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
I think there's still some value considering this in HTML. Taking a leaf from spreadsheet apps, how useful do people find the option to "freeze" rows and columns? The HTML 4.01 spec alludes to this being possibility with thead/tfoot, but I've not seen it implemented (somebody probably has managed it, somewhere, maybe with CSS? Well, there's google spreadsheets I guess.) Of course, redesigning tables to be simpler is always useful too :) On 8/17/07, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org> wrote: > > > > Robert Burns (17 août 2007 - 15:57) : > > Actually, for those tables, I was saying that able-bodied users > > would have trouble consuming those tables. I find them almost > > unusable. I do tend to magnify the text a bit for slight visual > > impairment compensation, but even at their default size they're > > very tedious to follow. On my laptops 1280x854 pixel display these > > tables require that I pan 300% or or more horizontally and 10-fold > > vertically to keep to visually associate the headers with the data > > cells. I would probably be better off using an aural browser unless > > fixed THEAD/TFOOT and scrolling bodies were implemented. So for me > > I'd say: > > These are good comments but illustrate a design choice. > I'm pretty sure we could improve the layout of the table. > thead and tfoot are implementable with CSS. So it's really a question > of choices in matter of design more than the technology itself. > > I guess I just gave me an action item to improve the layout of wbs. > I'll have to check that with Dominique. > > > > -- > Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ > W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead > QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ > *** Be Strict To Be Cool *** > > > > >
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