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Ian Smith

12 Apr 2007 12 Apr '07

3:37 p.m.

Hi all, thought I'd let you know that I've just enhanced my extension for simple tables. You can now format a table by just separating fields with tabs, spaces or commas, all inside <tab>...</tab> tags. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TabbedData_extension Cheers, Ian

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Frederik Dohr

12 Apr 12 Apr

5:37 p.m.

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thought I'd let you know that I've just enhanced my extension for simple tables. You can now format a table by just separating fields with tabs, spaces or commas, all inside <tab>...</tab> tags.

Sounds great, Ian - this will definitely ease the pain of creating simple tables! When I have some time, I'll look at the code to allow some simple cell formatting, like defining column or row headers. (Maybe that's even possible already; I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.) You might wanna think of another name for this extension though; the current name makes it a bit hard to immediately grasp this extension's purpose. (The term "tabbed" is reminiscent of things like "tabbed browsing", which might be misleading.) -- F.

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Ian Smith

5:57 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Tabbed data extension

Frederik Dohr:

Sounds great, Ian - this will definitely ease the pain of creating simple tables!

Cool, I hope it's useful.

When I have some time, I'll look at the code to allow some simple cell formatting, like defining column or row headers. (Maybe that's even possible already; I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.)

No, it doesn't do that yet; I can't think of a way to do that kind of stuff that doesn't end up being about as complex as the Wiki markup. But if you come up with something, please let me know! Probably the best place to discuss this is the extension's talk page, though.

You might wanna think of another name for this extension though; the current name makes it a bit hard to immediately grasp this extension's purpose. (The term "tabbed" is reminiscent of things like "tabbed browsing", which might be misleading.)

Hmmm, good point... Ian

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Frederik Dohr

19 Apr 19 Apr

4:06 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Tabbed data extension

When I have some time, I'll look at the code to allow some simple cell formatting, like defining column or row headers. (Maybe that's even possible already; I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.)

No, it doesn't do that yet; I can't think of a way to do that kind of stuff that doesn't end up being about as complex as the Wiki markup. But if you come up with something, please let me know!

... which hereby I do. I've done a quick & dirty modification for column headings; when adding a HEAD parameter, the table's first line will use TH instead of TD tags. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:TabbedData_extension#modification:_colu… Shouldn't be hard to do something similar for table rows as well. By the way: This extension uses raw HTML code (TR/TD tags) instead of wiki markup - is that the way it's supposed to be? Or would a "cleaner" way be to use wiki markup instead? (I know next to nothing about writing extensions, that's why I'm asking.)

Probably the best place to discuss this is the extension's talk page

I'd agree - but somehow it seems deserted and forgotten... -- F.

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Ian Smith

5:22 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Tabbed data extension

Hi Frederik,

I've done a quick & dirty modification for column headings; when

adding

a HEAD parameter, the table's first line will use TH instead of TD

tags. Actually, that looks like a really good modification! Nice idea. I've extended it to allow "head=top" or "head=left". I've also added a new separator -- bar (|).

By the way: This extension uses raw HTML code (TR/TD tags) instead of wiki markup - is that the way it's supposed to be? Or would a

"cleaner"

way be to use wiki markup instead? (I know next to nothing about

writing

extensions, that's why I'm asking.)

Most special pages etc. that I've see produce raw HTML. However, since we're now parsing the result anyway (thanks to Smcnaught for that), I've changed it to produce Wiki markup. Seems cleaner, as you say.

Probably the best place to discuss this is the extension's talk page

I'd agree - but somehow it seems deserted and forgotten...

Whoops, sorry! I thought it was on my watch list, but somehow it got left off. Fixed now, and thanks for pointing this out. Ian

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Jim Wilson

12 Apr 12 Apr

5:58 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Tabbed data extension

You might wanna think of another name for this extension though; the current name makes it a bit hard to immediately grasp this extension's purpose. (The term "tabbed" is reminiscent of things like "tabbed browsing", which might be misleading.)

I concur - I think the word "Tabular" seems more appropriate. -- Jim On 4/12/07, Frederik Dohr <fdg001(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > > thought I'd let you know that I've just enhanced my extension for simple > > tables. You can now format a table by just separating fields with tabs, > > spaces or commas, all inside <tab>...</tab> tags. > > Sounds great, Ian - this will definitely ease the pain of creating > simple tables! > > When I have some time, I'll look at the code to allow some simple cell > formatting, like defining column or row headers. (Maybe that's even > possible already; I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.) >

You might wanna think of another name for this extension though; the current name makes it a bit hard to immediately grasp this extension's purpose. (The term "tabbed" is reminiscent of things like "tabbed browsing", which might be misleading.)

> > > -- F. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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