JeLuF wrote:
One of the tables I like in wikipedia is this one: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Beryllium
I think this is a very apropriate way to present the
information,
some kind of fact sheet. tarquin's proposal needs to
get some
kind of markup to mark the labels (which are then
rastered with
background color according to selected skin).
Thank you. Although I think that particular implementation is a bit fat -- it takes up nearly half of the text area on low res screens. I am in fact far more proud of the taxonomy tables that I helped develop -- which use nested tables with invisible borders, have embedded images, heading fill color and a list in the final cell to make adding taxon group members easy (see: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Typical_owl for an example)
But here is the rub; any wiki syntax that is enacted will need to have nested tables, the ability to have embedded images, lists and heading color fill or I won't be able to use or promote them for the element articles, taxonomy tables or even the country tables (I'm involved with all three projects and considering helping with the US Presidents tables). The colors for the elements and taxonomy tables have specific meanings associated with them and the nested tables are needed to present different types of information (I guess this can be replicated without nesting, but in HTML at least that requires a /more/ complicated table). In my view then, the goal of any wiki table mark-up should be to recreate the typical owl table in the most easy to learn and code wiki markup possible. The details on how to do this are not as important to me as the results.
--mav
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