[whatwg] Now there is table-element with predetermined quantity of column.But sometimes we need to visualize three tables(for example, database tables) as one table:first table contains names of rows, second table contains names of columns (this table determine quantity of columns), third table contains data.New html-element: table-dim

Jonas Sicking jonas at sicking.cc
Mon Apr 23 15:35:23 PDT 2007


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/ Jonas

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> Woha, please put the subject in the subject field, not the full proposal.
> 
> Anyway, I agree with Preston, making 3 roundtrips to the server seems 
> quite suboptimal. I would would instead try to integrate the data 
> attribute from <datalist> and <select> elements.
> 
> Microsoft has some stuff that deals with streaming data into tables (and 
> I'll make a post in a second regarding a related idea I have). You 
> should take a look at that.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jonas Sicking
> 
> 
> Dmitry Turin wrote:
>> Now there is table-element with predetermined quantity of column.
>> But sometimes we need to visualize three tables (for example, database 
>> tables) as one table:
>> first table contains names of rows,
>> second table contains names of columns (this table determine quantity 
>> of columns),
>> third table contains data.
>> I offer new html-element "table3" for that:
>>
>> <table3 rows="r.htm"              col="c.htm"              data="d.htm">
>> <table3 rows="/cgi-bin/a.cgi?q=r" col="/cgi-bin/a.cgi?q=c" 
>> data="/cgi-bin/a.cgi?q=d">
>>
>> Content of "r.htm":
>>
>> <th id=1>RowName1</th>
>> <th id=2>RowName2</th>
>> <th id=3>RowName3</th>
>>
>> Content of "c.htm":
>>
>> <th id=10>ColName1</th>
>> <th id=20>ColName2</th>
>> <th id=30>ColName3</th>
>>
>> Content of "d.htm":
>>
>> <td row=1 col=10>Data11</td>
>> <td row=1 col=20>Data12</td>
>> <td row=1 col=30>Data13</td>
>> <td row=2 col=10>Data21</td>
>> <td row=2 col=20>Data22</td>
>> <td row=2 col=30>Data23</td>
>> <td row=3 col=10>Data31</td>
>> <td row=3 col=20>Data32</td>
>> <td row=3 col=30>Data33</td>
>>
>> If some row or column don't exist for cell of data,
>> then cell of data is throwed out.
>>
>> ---
>> P.S.
>> Requests in database for "r.htm" and "c.htm":
>>  select '<th id='  + field_id + '>' + field_name + '</th>' from ...
>> Request for "d.htm":
>>  select '<td row=' + field_i + ' col=' + field_j + '>' + field_data + 
>> '</td>' from ...
>>
>>  
>> Dmitry Turin
>> http://html60.chat.ru
>> http://sql40.chat.ru
>>




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