tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com writes:
<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
Sure. Please allow "|" as an alternate term delimiter, BTW; ":" often is part of the term (URLs!!) and thus you cannot use it without "<nowiki>" tricks.
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
It's of no use to talk about such a strategie without referring to existing articles ;) Let's modify the Kuwait article accordingly...
Also you must not use table for navigation bars.
(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?)
No, not really. w3m is advanced, but I cannot use it for various reasons (e.g., UTF-8 support it's flaky) and tables in general will not work as long as you cannot use a wide xterm (80 chars are often not enough).
Another drawback concerning tables is, that when printed they often don't look that good.