[Wikipedia-l] WikiTable implementation

[tarquin]

Magnus Manske wrote:

> (Moved from wikien-l)
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> Toby Bartels wrote:
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>> Everybody interested in this should see [[meta:Wiki markup tables]].
>> This hasn't been worked on for a while, and fresh ideas would be good.
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>
> I don't have any fresh ideas on that one, so I went ahead and 
> (surprise!) implemented my table markup at the test wiki:
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> http://test.wikipedia.org/w/magnus/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_table_test
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> (don't go to the test wiki itself, only use the above link)
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> This early version has no error checking (matching <table>s etc.), but 
> it already handles HTML tags (if necessary), CSS definitions, and 
> nested tables. 

Nice!

I was about to say we shouldn't need to use a table to hold an image -- 
a simple DIV with a paragraphs for the image and caption will be fine.
but then I remembered the problem with the width of the floated DIV -- 
it has to be specified, otherwise it can break.
The CSS float model can REALLY be a pain in the a*** sometimes :(