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Sat Jan 2 09:19:13 GMT 2021
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On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 03:04:21AM +0000, Kiëd Llaentenn wrote:
Hello,
Just recently I was creating a Gemini mirror of an HTTP site, and came
across several pages that made heavy use of tables. I did what I suspect
most Gemini publishers/content authors do: use ASCII tables, like so:
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1. It requires the client to display the table in a monospaced font,
which many would prefer not to use.
2. Text in table rows won't be wrapped properly on narrow displays.
3. ASCII tables are anything but screenreader friendly, since there's no
semantic information about the table's structure.
FWIW org-mode (a software for Emacs) deals very well with table likeyou wrote in your message (navigation, narrowing, it even includespreadsheet features!). :)
So i guess a sufficiently smart client ;-) could parse and manage texttable very well! :)
Bye!C.