Andrew Maben wrote:
Perhaps you could chip in on a debate I'm having with myself: Is a
calendar tabular data?
Andrew
Not in the truest sense.
A calendar relies on one axis alone - time. By putting it into a table,
you are artificially constraining its info on false premises.
For instance, a small calendar might be the combination of two axes:
time of day, and day:
Mon Tue Wed ...
08:00
09:00
10:00
...
...or you could put it another way: day of the week, and week number:
Mon Tue Wed ...
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
...
...or day number, and month:
1 2 3 ...
Jan
Feb
Mar
...
But all these things are incompatible. If you have it as a highly styled
list item:
<ul id="months">
<li>Jan</li>
<ul id="days">
<li>1</li>
<ul id="time">
<li>08:00</li>
...
You leave all those options open, and you're being less deceptive in
your grouping the only true [linear] factor, time, into two subjective
and inter-related systems.
Of course, for any kind of convenience, you're probably better off with
one of the table methods. But I still maintain than in purest concept,
it is not tabular data.
Regards,
Barney
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