Re: Hierarchies with tabular data...

Peter Krantz wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> Example 4 was such a table in HTML.
> [...]
> [4] <http://tinyurl.com/3689pu>

That's an interactive widget which might eventually be better as a 
<datagrid>. The [actual website] doesn't use this widget, so it seems like a 
somewhat [artificial example].

[actual website] <http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/popular.html>
[artificial example] 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Aug/0328.html>

Peter Krantz wrote:
> There is a chicken and egg scenario at work here. Maybe it will be 
> difficult to find such tables
> in HTML becaues they are hard to do? This does not mean that there isn't a 
> need for them...

Indeed, that's why I include links to some PDF, Excel and ASCII table 
collections in [my research].

I simulated converting some into HTML to see how feasible that might be for 
the original authors. There are other variants which could be made, such as 
the [headers+id] patch technique from Stephen Ferg. Everyone is welcome to 
help spread the workload.

[the readme] <http://sitesurgeon.co.uk/tables/readme.html>
[headers+id] 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Aug/0428.html>


Peter Krantz wrote:
> Typically tree tables appear in many document management solutions.
> See [1] for another HTML-based example (requires signup to their trial
> service).
>
> [1]: http://www.projectplace.com/en/products/free_trial/

How many is "many"? Links to these other examples you've found would be 
useful. Preferrably ones where you just click the link and it's their!

--
Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
Collections of Interesting Data Tables
<http://sitesurgeon.co.uk/tables/readme.html>

Received on Sunday, 14 October 2007 13:10:34 UTC