On 06/07/11 09:04 (GMT-0600) Joe apparently typed:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Why do you think an alphabet shouldn't be considered tabular data?
> I believe it depends on how you would like the alphabet to be depicted. In
> the example that you had provided (comparing the letter to its corresponding
> position) the data is in fact, tabular.
No doubt.
> But, when simply displaying the
> alphabet with no relationships between the letters themselves then it should
> not be tabular. Tabular data 'should' contain both columns AND rows.
I posit that Richard's alphabet contains an implied header row in
addition to the explicit row.
The alphabet can be a row array, as in Richard's case. Tables are
usually compilations of arrays. What in the HTML specs is better
designed to semantically present a row array than a table?
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