On Thu, 15 May 2003 11:23:14 -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com gave utterance to the following:
I agree - but when you said "ALL HTML is forbidden" I went ahead and looked at the table specification part of your document and saw some things that seem rather Spartan to me. For example, the document doesn't indicate whether or not nested tables would be allowed and it doesn't seem to say how one would do bgcolor-type cell fills, or how to set border width.
There's no provision for nested tables. I don't think there's a good enough case for their necessity. Cell backgrounds and borders can be done with styles.
So if the table at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium cannot be replicated pretty much as-is in wikicode then I for will have a fit (I'm sure many others will join me).
Yeah, that nested table is a nuisance. I'll have to think about that.
That nested table could be a separate table, particularly if we used a wrapper div and performed the float on that.
I suggest that we look at some way of introducing classes based on the semantics of the data. For example, a wiki-method of entering <span class="species"> - although if we go that far we may as well look at an xml-based wiki (<species>) using server-side XSLT with a range of standard and personal-choice stylesheets.
Whatever we do, the aim must be to produce valid (x)HTML and CSS, maximising the chances of consistent behaviour across platforms and browsers. No inserting of <p> </p> to generate space below headers (etc).