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Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...]
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David Combs |
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Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...] |
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Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:39:04 -0800 (PST) |
Heck, if you want to go that far, why not ALSO an
INTERACTIVE awk-like "printtable $1, $3, $8" kind of thing,
to get the columns you REALLY want.
That is, if the "cursor" is inside a "table", it reformats
the thing accordingly right then.
(If in a nested table, then just that one, I guess.)
> From address@hidden Mon Jan 12 08:45:17 1998
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 98 10:53:26 EST
> From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <address@hidden>
> Precedence: bulk
> Reply-To: address@hidden
>
> But for many other pages, we need tables. My favorite example is
> train and bus schedules, but things can get a lot more complicated
> than this, what with HTML allowing nested tables and many kinds of
> elements within table cells.
>
> If someone were to work on this, they ought to look at the extensive
> discussions of the Web Accessibility Initiative, where Al Gilman has
> been participating. There are new constructs in HTML 4, partly as a
> result of these discussions, so that columns can be grouped, and I
> think there are also provisions that would allow you to scroll some of
> the data on the rows while leaving the row label fixed.
>
> As a screen reader user, I would want fairly large chunks coming onto
> the screen, such as a table column or a table column group, rather
> than bits of words and characters. If the parser successfully divided
> the columns of a table, it might be useful to put a vertical rule
> between the cells, (a vertical line character) as well as one or more
> spaces (preferably more).
- Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...], (continued)
Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...], T.E.Dickey, 1998/01/12
Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...], Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/01/12
Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...], Lloyd G. Rasmussen, 1998/01/12
Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...],
David Combs <=