- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:30:46 +0200
- To: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
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/
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