Karl Eichwalder wrote:
(in HTML talk it's definition lists):
<dl> <dt>Official language</dt> <dd>Arabic</dd>
<dt>Capital</dt> <dd>Baghdad</dd>
...
</dl>
And in Wiki markup it's just ; foo : bar ; foo2 : bar2
Great for stuff that needs only 2 columns. Eg the Nobel Prize lists. But for more complex data, Mav is right - tables are vital. Move them out of the article source text & we're all happy :-) * readers get clear tables * easily-scared n00bs get no evil table HTML in source code * anyone who wants to edit the article text doesn't have to scroll down through pages and pages of table code
(and as for text-only browsers... <table> has been around for a LONG time. Surely text-only browsers have some sort of system for coping with them?)