June Kim:
> If you want to keep browser as the platform as a long term plan, I would
> strongly suggest using its table displaying feature(<TABLE> tag) for
> displaying tables.
Bill Lam:
> But, can that be copy and paste via clipboard to text editor?
June Kim:
> Yes, it's tab-separated between the columns and LF-separated between the
> rows. (FireFox)
Bill Lam:
> I meant including the grid.
I rarely, if ever, actually want the grid characters. When I'm copying a
table, I want tabular information (e.g. to paste into Excel); this is even
true when pasting into a text email: I want the recipient to be able to
visualize the table but also copy/paste it into other programs. TSV is the
universal format for this (which is why browsers copy tables as TSVs).
Another nice thing about <TABLE>s is that all browsers can and will render
them appropriately, without needing special font support for box chars or
anything like that.
However, if I really wanted the table chars, I could format (":) the table
before I displayed it. This would allow me to use 9!: to choose my own
chars, too.
-Dan
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