Nvu progress 20040610
By glazou on Thursday 10 June 2004, 18:06 - Nvu - Permalink
- new table insertion dialog
- 0.30 RC1 on its way
Next events
- 9-11 may-2012, CSS WG meeting, Hamburg, Germany
- 29 oct-2 nov 2012, W3C Technical Plenary Meeting, Lyon, France
Comments
Nice, really
Excellent. Mozilla Composer's insert table UI was a mess.
thanks a lot - this is a cool feature for my work as teacher with pupils!!!
Markus
could this be done directly from an icon in the toolbar
without calling the dialog first ??
wolf: not in the 15 minutes I spent on it this afternoon
Otherwise, yes.
And the source code of a new table cell is finally just a simple <td> and not <td valign="top">? This is one of my most hated bugs in composer, because the vertical alignment of a text in a table cell has to be definded in a style sheet and not inline.
Off-by-one bug?
The dialog says 6x4, but the highlighted area is actually a 5x4... 
Kidding! I love the dialog anyway!
wolf: "could this be done directly from an icon in the toolbar
without calling the dialog first ?? " just like in Frontpage Express?
I think that displaying this dialog as a "drop down panel"(button expanding in a panel like 'back button' in browsers) could be an fast way to insert a table from the toolbar.
Maybe keeping it as a dialog will discourage authors from using tables when they aren't necessary.
(Just kidding, I'd have no problem with direct toolbar-button access.)
Mauriz: don't know FrontPage!!
I used this feature in WordPerfect(??)the graphical DOS version ??? a long time ago.
How this worked:
from the Toolbar Icon (table insert)
1. click on the icon while holding down the mouse bouton
2. an initial field opens ( say 3 x 4) row/column
with the last row showing the text "3 x 4"
3 still holding down the button the icon field
expands/retracts with the mouse movements
4. free the mouse and the table is inserted
One piece of cricicism: it doesn't look keyboard or screen reader accessible. Looks like a feature for mousers only so far.
I'm sure the precisely tab will take care of that, right?
See the accessible XUL authoring guidelines for some easy accessibility do's and dont's:
www.mozilla.org/projects/...
BTW, Daniel, I have on this dialog 'rows' and 'cols' input fields to define numbers from keyboard :-P
aaronlev: excellent remark, thanks a lot. Yes the "precisely" tab will take care of that, it corresponds to the original table insertion dialog.
/me bows down 8]