- From: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:10:55 +0100
- To: "Peter Krantz" <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- Cc: "HTMLWG" <public-html@w3.org>
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>
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