Also, put me in the "we should disallow table tags" column.
But without table tags, there wouldn't be any columns...!
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Noumenon - Nov 17, 2002 6:42:20 pm PST #1567 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2002 6:42:33 pm PST #1568 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ita - like Noumenon said, you could always post your nifty table-ized statistics somewhere else and link to them.
Yeah, but no. I'm not using someone else's server space for that. They'll just have to be not posted.
Please fix editpost, Jon, and deletepost too.
Jon B. - Nov 17, 2002 6:53:39 pm PST #1569 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Please fix editpost, Jon, and deletepost too.
Done.
I'm not using someone else's server space for that.
Don't you have your own server space?
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2002 7:08:26 pm PST #1570 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't you have your own server space?
Yup, but I want my posts to have the same lifetime as the board, not as some other site -- I've already accumulated directories full of stuff I think I put there to link to from somewhere else, and it's messy.
As I said, I'll just stop.
For the record, there are 23 posts that use a table tag -- half of those are mine, the rest posted by Jess, Jon, John, billytea and Dani.
John H - Nov 17, 2002 7:34:57 pm PST #1571 of 10000
I don't think we should outlaw table tags.
The problems that have been caused have all been genuine errors, and the people who made them have presumably been informed, and learned from their mistake?
Jesse - Nov 17, 2002 7:38:30 pm PST #1572 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But in each case, wasn't it a typo rather than an error? I mean, people know what to do, they just mis-type sometimes. If that mis-typing is going to cause a huge problem, we're better off doing something about it, I think.
Noumenon - Nov 17, 2002 7:45:17 pm PST #1573 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Mine was pasting part of something tabley into the board, which got confused by the missing parts.
Three of John H's tables are 10-cell tables like the one in John H "Natter 3: My Life and Times of Me, as Seen by Me" Oct 27, 2002 12:23:29 am EDT. So he won't miss those, except in a techy way.
Jon B. - Nov 17, 2002 8:15:50 pm PST #1574 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
For the record, there are 23 posts that use a table tag -- half of those are mine, the rest posted by Jess, Jon, John, billytea and Dani.
The times I used a table, I could have easily done without.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2002 8:20:52 pm PST #1575 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It is an error, but it's one that breaks a page -- not makes it look incorrectly formatted. Throw in an early t /table or two for instance, and you can rework the entire page layout.
My tables definitely needed to be tables, but didn't necessarily need to be posted period.
Jessica - Nov 17, 2002 8:22:03 pm PST #1576 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I like table tags. I would miss them.
Wouldn't table tags be easier to fix than the font formatting ones, anyway? Since you can't overlap them without table breakage? It seems like it would be easier to figure out if they're nested improperly, since they have to work in order.