- From: Joris Huizer <joris_huizer@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:15:59 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Christoph_P?per" <christoph@paeper.de>, www-html@w3.org
--- Christoph_Päper <christoph@paeper.de> wrote:
>
> *Joris Huizer* <joris_huizer@yahoo.com>:
> >
> > Now, I think it would be best to represent the
> data
> > using a ondered list - but it's also a table
>
> A list is more or less just a one-dimensional table
> (at least ol and ul) and a
> table an n-dimensional list, thus I don't see the
> problem here.
Hmm... yeah maybe that's right. But if you really
state a table is a n-dimensional list, isn't it
logical to use list items ( <li> ) in the table ? It
might look a bit weird if you're used to <td>s though
> If you wanted auto generated numbers, you /could/
> use CSS:
>
> tbody tr::before {content: counter(charts)}
>
> The most I could think of that HTML could do here,
> was to offer an attribute for
> specifying by which column or row a table is sorted
> and how, like (fictitious):
>
> <col sorted="numeral" id="pos"><col id="song"><col
> id="artist">...
>
> But what would UAs do with that piece of
> information?
>
> Christoph Päper
>
>
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Received on Friday, 24 January 2003 06:16:01 UTC