On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:15:32PM -0600, Bryan Derksen wrote:
[...] I hope that whatever happens, the ability to use genuine HTML table markup (or something equivalent to it) won't be removed from Wikipedia; when it's used appropriately, it can be pretty easy to work with.
In case we don't go with the style-sheet option, I made a proposal on
http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_markup_tables
for replacing the HTML table syntax with something more Wiki. It's the second proposal. It's more compact then HTML so it allows you to make it look a bit more WYSIWYG in the edit text, but still allows you to do most of the important stuff you can do with tables.
Actually it could also be combined with a style-sheet proposal. Just replace the attributes in {{al=c,...}} with a single style name {{animal-table}}. That would mean added complexity (two ways of doing the same) but also create an intermediate level of doing formatting: 1. (easiest) no formatting 2. (harder) formatting with HTML attributes 3. (hardest) defining a separate style in CSS2
I imagine the people would usually just want to do a little formatting with the help of HTML attributes, and once a certain table format gets re-used a lot, we could factor it out into a style.
-- Jan Hidders