Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com): I tend to agree. But then, I like my web pages ugly and functional.
My major concern is the ease of editing issue. I have nothing against good-looking tables and nice designs that make a page easy to read, but if it makes the underlying code hard to edit, it doesn't suit Wikipedia well.
One simple option would be to put the code for the table on another page, and import it -- much like we do with images. We could agree on nicer table syntax at a later date too.
I've suggested how this could be done for both tables and images here: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_pages