dim, 28 Mar 2010, Dan Bron skribis:
> 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.
On the contrary I consider grid characters important because
information will be lost without them, eg, <1 vs <<1
I'm sceptical box nouns can be actually represented by csv which only
intended for 2-d cells as such in excel.
As Eric suggested, if I really wanted a html tag, I would use jhtml
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