Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

[Philip Webb]

980329 Jan Hlavek wrote: 
> What I was proposing was basically change
>  <TABLE> ... </TABLE>  into  <OL> ... </OL> ,
>  <TR> ... </TR>  into  <LI><OL> ... </OL> ,
> and both  <TH> ... </TH>  and  <TD> ... </TD>  into  <LI> ...
> OK, one would have to somehow deal with COLSPAN/ROWSPAN and so on.
> This would display 
> 
> <TABLE>
> <TR><TH>Fruit<TH>Color<TH>Amount</TR>
> <TR><TD>apples<TD>red<TD>2 lb</TR>
> <TR><TD>peaches<TD>yellow<TD>3 lb</TR>
> <TR><TD>cheries<TD>black<TD>10 lb</TR>
> </TABLE>
> 
> as
> 
> 1.
>    1. Fruit
>    2. Color
>    3. Amount
> 2.
>    1. apples
>    2. red
>    3. 2 lb
> 3.
>    1. peaches
>    2. yellow
>    3. 3 lb
> 4.
>    1. cheries
>    2. black
>    3. 10 lb
 
this is really very clever & neat: my vote is in favor of adopting it.
i do encounter tables -- eg financial/economic data -- ,
which take a lot of messy cleaning-up as things stand.

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