From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: References: <48bf952044866666bbe3c7aecbc049cc@proxima.alt.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:21:21 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37a11c66-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Just added: - proper column sizing - cellpadding and cellspacing support Planned: - nested images, rules, forms, etc. - borders (made using either ASCII or Unicode characters; I'll discuss the differences later) - nested tables Once at least nested non-text is finished, I'll submit it to patch. On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > Grazie, ho finito. > > Actually, it might not be what you want, and it isn't perfect. What > it does is it formats each cell to be the length of the longest of > the whole table. There's some hooks to get it working. However, a > few setbacks: > - it only works with text data (no ) > - no nested tables > I'm working on all of these, as well as changing it so that each > column is the length of its largest item rather than the whole > table's largest item. > > On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:37 PM, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > >>> If you need me, I'll be adding tables to htmlfmt. >> >> In bocca al lupo! >> >> But you can't add JavaScript to htmlfmt so we're still miles away >> from >> being able to do one's banking in Plan 9. >> >> Personally, I mix VNC and an UBUNTU laptop to get things done, >> because >> I have to. Perhaps the consolation I can draw from noticing the >> sluggishness of these devices is that all exponential growth >> eventually exceeds available resources. >> >> When wintelinux comes crashing down through an inability to sustain >> growth, Plan 9 will be a good candidate for the next hardware >> platform. There will be others, all of them, hopefully, skinnier >> than >> their predecessors. >> >> In fact, at the current rate, wintelinux ought to be slowing down >> relative to Plan 9, if not already, certainly pretty soon. >> >> ++L >> >