Gutza wrote in part:
Tarquin wrote:
A while ago some bright spark thought to put a DIV around the statement of maths theorems, with a dashed purple border. Today it's boxes with coloured borders for disambiguation notes. Here's why these are bad ideas:
I've started replying to this three times and closed the "Compose" window just as many times. Why? Because I actually have nothing to add, my message could just as well be void, because I have very little more to add. Why I sent it after all? Because I feel exactly the same way, in a strong way, and wanted to get my "vote" counted in. :)
In other words, "me too". Well, me too too!
In that regard, XML, proper HTML or at least custom CSS styles could be used for tables as well. Tables are a cross-breed between meta-information and presentation, it's hard to separate the two in this case. What you can do though is properly mark the table header as header and the body as table body, as opposed to marking the first row render in bold on a gray background, and rendering the rest of the table in default style.
Everybody interested in this should see [[meta:Wiki markup tables]]. This hasn't been worked on for a while, and fresh ideas would be good.
-- Toby