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