Re: HTML5 and Multidimensional Table View

On Oct 6, 10:30 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

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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