Re:Using Standard HTML (1997)
by dredmorbius on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:03PM
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Could you expand on what you mean by this?
I don't know if this is a case you had in mind, but I'm increasingly frustrated with the inflexibility of table-based data in HTML.
With JS support, it's possible to create dynamic tables -- sortable, searchable, filterable, summarisable (sum, mean, count, etc.). But none of that is available in stock HTML + browser. It would be quite useful.
Similar features might be envisioned for ordered or unordered lists.
As would be the ability to simply extract content from HTML tables. There are some tools offered for this, but relatively few, and largely arcane, especially for nontechnical users.
I don't know if this is a case you had in mind, but I'm increasingly frustrated with the inflexibility of table-based data in HTML.
With JS support, it's possible to create dynamic tables -- sortable, searchable, filterable, summarisable (sum, mean, count, etc.). But none of that is available in stock HTML + browser. It would be quite useful.
Similar features might be envisioned for ordered or unordered lists.
As would be the ability to simply extract content from HTML tables. There are some tools offered for this, but relatively few, and largely arcane, especially for nontechnical users.