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HTML5 and Multidimensional Table View

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Don84

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Oct 6, 2009, 10:12:50 AM10/6/09
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I just scanned the HTML5 spec real quick and paid an attention to its
entry on Table element. I'm a bit disappointed that it does not seem
to support multidimensional view of Tables, by which, I mean, if we
could display a Table with a degree (angle), then it could look like

------------------- -------------------
/ data set 1 / / data set 2 /
/------------------/ /-------------------/
------------------ --------------------
\ data set 3 \ \ data set 4 \
\ --------------- \ \------------------- \

Hence, they are not linear, instead multidimensional. And if each
data set is a high level view then all the key ideas/points would
stand out right away, upon click each can displays detailed info...

Yes, the above is doable with some fancy graphics package but if HTML5
can support it as a standard why do we have to mess up with third
party non-standard stuff?

Or probably the above is already supported by HTML5 standard, by some
other element, it's just that I don't know better. Please correct
where appropriate.

Thank you for your time.

Harlan Messinger

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Oct 6, 2009, 10:30:13 AM10/6/09
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Don84 wrote:
> I just scanned the HTML5 spec real quick and paid an attention to its
> entry on Table element. I'm a bit disappointed that it does not seem
> to support multidimensional view of Tables, by which, I mean, if we
> could display a Table with a degree (angle), then it could look like
>
> ------------------- -------------------
> / data set 1 / / data set 2 /
> /------------------/ /-------------------/
> ------------------ --------------------
> \ data set 3 \ \ data set 4 \
> \ --------------- \ \------------------- \
>

Maybe it's me, but even with my monotype font, I don't know what you're
trying to depict here.

lcplben

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Oct 9, 2009, 5:32:25 PM10/9/09
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On Oct 6, 10:30 am, Harlan Messinger

I think the OP wonders why HTML5 doesn't mention anything about three-
dimensional tables that look like this:

http://www.sciencegl.com/3Dsurf/Shots/S&P500_ALL_2.jpg

where a collection of stocks is on the nw-to-se axis; the sw-to-ne
axis is time; and the z-axis is some kind of magnitude, perhaps the
price gain of each stock.

Someone has taken the trouble to describe a way to organize the data
points for a 3-D table in HTML4:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/HTML/Building-a-3D-HTML-Table/

HTH

-- ben

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