RE: HTML5, Phones, and Tables

["Jack DeLand" <jackdeland -at- comcast -dot- net>]

There's an excellent LinkedIn group called CSS3/HTML5 The future of front end: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2071438 Lots of discussion on mobile, and there are some links to mobile table samples IIRC.


Jack DeLand
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Subject: RE: HTML5, Phones, and Tables

Hi Chris,

I haven't had time to check in depth but you might want to take a look at "Developing User Assistance for Mobile Applications" (2e) by Joe Welinske.

He mentions this in general terms, and the suggestion seems to be to abandon tables -- but on a cursory glance I wasn't able to see what he suggests in their place.

He points out a similar issue with images.

Just a thought.  Hope that helps.  It does seem to be a major paradigm shift.

Thanks for a provocative question, btw.

Steve

On Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:10 AM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:

In the old world tables are very useful.  There's no better way in print to show a matrix of options, or present a comparison in one glance.  For desktop online docs that translates really well...  You can even use javascript to turn the table into something a bit more dynamic -- say, enable sorting of rows, for example.  But tables require a lot of real estate.  

What do you do for phones? 

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