[Mediawiki-l] Tabbed data extension

Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 17:58:27 UTC 2007


> You might wanna think of another name for this extension though; the
> current name makes it a bit hard to immediately grasp this extension's
> purpose. (The term "tabbed" is reminiscent of things like "tabbed
> browsing", which might be misleading.)

I concur - I think the word "Tabular" seems more appropriate.

-- Jim

On 4/12/07, Frederik Dohr <fdg001 at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > thought I'd let you know that I've just enhanced my extension for simple
> > tables.  You can now format a table by just separating fields with tabs,
> > spaces or commas, all inside <tab>...</tab> tags.
>
> Sounds great, Ian - this will definitely ease the pain of creating
> simple tables!
>
> When I have some time, I'll look at the code to allow some simple cell
> formatting, like defining column or row headers. (Maybe that's even
> possible already; I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.)
>
> You might wanna think of another name for this extension though; the
> current name makes it a bit hard to immediately grasp this extension's
> purpose. (The term "tabbed" is reminiscent of things like "tabbed
> browsing", which might be misleading.)
>
>
> -- F.
>
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