Paul M Foster wrote:
[snip]
> I wish someone had thought of a similar thing for databases. From the
> beginning, there should have been a spreadsheet-like interface for
> databases. This could have saved endless trouble, since for lack of
> this, people store database information in spreadsheets.
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 12:04 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 22:23 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I wish someone had thought of a similar thing for databases. From the
> > > beginning, there should have been a spreadsheet-like interfa
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 22:23 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> >
> > I wish someone had thought of a similar thing for databases. From the
> > beginning, there should have been a spreadsheet-like interface for
> > databases. This could have saved endless trouble, since for
Paul M Foster wrote:
I wish someone had thought of a similar thing for databases. From the
beginning, there should have been a spreadsheet-like interface for
databases. This could have saved endless trouble, since for lack of
this, people store database information in spreadsheets. And then won
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:52:56AM -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 9:08 AM -0400 5/23/09, Robert Cummings wrote:
>> Ya know... the people over at HTML standards design cold have saved the
>> world a large number of headaches by just adding a new attribute to
>> tables:
>>
>>
>>
>> Then everyone layou
At 9:08 AM -0400 5/23/09, Robert Cummings wrote:
Ya know... the people over at HTML standards design cold have saved the
world a large number of headaches by just adding a new attribute to
tables:
Then everyone layout table out there would have been valid by the simple
addition of this att
Have anyone of you checked the table to div converter class from
www.phpclasses.org ?
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 05:06 -0400, O. Lavell wrote:
> Jim Lucas wrote:
>
> > Since this has been a topic of dicussion, I figured I would add my
> > thoughts.
> >
> > I have been toying with the idea of doing a -less layouts
> > involving tabular data, calendars, etc...
>
> Why?
>
> > Recent thr
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:10 PM, tedd wrote:
> Could you be certain that your algorithm would figure out which way it needs
> to present the text to a blind person?
My own experience browsing the web with Lynx (which for the most part,
tends to ignore table layout, giving you the content of tabl
On 21/5/09 18:48, Weston C wrote:
I almost just wish
we'd accepted the horse was out of the barn and tried to figure out an
easy way to signal distinctions between layout tables and semantic
tabular data, rather than trying to get the entire internet to
completely retool.
One year after HTML 4.
At 11:48 AM -0600 5/21/09, Weston C wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 09:54 -0400, tedd wrote:
My thoughts are -- my understanding the reason why tables have
received such bad-press is that designers have abused tables in
holding designs together with nested tables AND in doing so made it
difficu
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 09:54 -0400, tedd wrote:
> My thoughts are -- my understanding the reason why tables have
> received such bad-press is that designers have abused tables in
> holding designs together with nested tables AND in doing so made it
> difficult for the visually disabled to pull conte
On 21/05/2009 10.02, Jim Lucas wrote:
Since this has been a topic of dicussion, I figured I would add my
thoughts.
I have been toying with the idea of doing a -less layouts
involving tabular data, calendars, etc...
Recent threads have finally made me do it. Let me know what you think.
http://w
On 5/21/09 5:06 AM, "O. Lavell" wrote:
> Jim Lucas wrote:
>
>> Since this has been a topic of dicussion, I figured I would add my
>> thoughts.
>>
>> I have been toying with the idea of doing a -less layouts
>> involving tabular data, calendars, etc...
>
> Why?
it's a zen practice.
--
PHP
Jim Lucas wrote:
> Since this has been a topic of dicussion, I figured I would add my
> thoughts.
>
> I have been toying with the idea of doing a -less layouts
> involving tabular data, calendars, etc...
Why?
> Recent threads have finally made me do it. Let me know what you think.
>
> http://
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