Re: Side scrolling [was Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Setting up a fund ...]

[David Combs]

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>
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> 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).