WikiShouldOfferSimplifiedUseOfTables

The title in itself is a whole program.

I will try to sketch a proposal for a simple syntax for entering tables.

See MeatBall:TableSyntax (and more pointedly, MoinMoin:HelpOnTables.)

''Do we support these MoinMoin:HelpOnTables style tables?

Should we? I don't see a lot of improvement in terms of

ease of use, as against regular HTML. One of the great things

about wiki, of course, is that people don't need to know much

to get started. Tables are always going to have some kind of

learning curve, I suppose. But we should keep it very simple.''

Having just painstakingly worked on Las Vegas/Climate, I can say that I second the proposal for a simplified

use of tables. I looked at the code, and realized that this is an option I can set. So I have for now turned it ON, unless someone comes up with a very good reason why we shouldn't.

The HTML syntax is not too bad, and people can't really do very much evil with it. Edit this page to see how I made this table in html.

A very simple table:

<table border=1>

<tr>

<td>Item one</td>

<td>Item two</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>Item three</td>

<td>Item four</td>

</tr>

</table>

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>Item one</td>
<td>Item two</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Item three</td>
<td>Item four</td>
</tr>
</table>

A little bit fancier table:

<table border=1>

<tr>

<td>Item one</td>

<td>Item two</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td rowspan=2>Item three</td>

<td>Item four</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>Item five</td>

</tr>

</table>

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>Item one</td>
<td>Item two</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan=2>Item three</td>
<td>Item four</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Item five</td>
</tr>
</table>