Re: [Phpwiki-talk] wish for 1.3 version

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

An old saying here is "Give them enough rope and they will hang
themselves." This would be my approach to tables.

I think someone suggested something like:

@ ^cell1 ^cell2 ^cell3
@ ^cell1 ^cell2 ^cell3
@ ^cell1 ^cell2 ^cell3

where @ indicates the start of a table row, ^ the contents of the cell.
I'd have to dig it out of the archive. It's a low priority though. I hate
tables.

If we're supporting multi-line markup now, we can just escape to HTML land
for a while, like:

^^^^ (four or more carots starts an HTML block)

<table>
...
</table>

^^^^ (and closes the HTML block)

It's only a warmed over version of the bar syntax. I don't know. It
doesn't excite me much. I think a dirt-simple table syntax like the first
one is good enough and users can hack it if they want to have more
features. I can understand people want to do stuff like: 

@ ^Judy  ^ju...@fo...        ^212-444-9999
@ ^Bill  ^bi...@mi... ^xxx-yyy-zzzz
@ ^Steve ^st...@no...   ^aaa-bbb-cccc

Even that little bit will be a hassle to code though.

~swain

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Arno Hollosi wrote:

> 
> > Oh no! Not tables again! We've gotten two patches already! :-)
> > Well, it would be an interesting challenge for Arno ;-)
> 
> Well, I guess my position on tables is clear.
> They are against wiki philosophy.
> 
> But heck, now that we have modular code, I could just add a patch (not in 
> base install) for that.
> 
> Problem is, I have not yet seen a good markup for tables.
> Maybe just use the HTML table tags and let users take care of the rest?
> 
> /Arno
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