Strange Pants - article - We can talk about tables again...

The Web Standards revolution is changing gear. Amazon is full of books on the proper use of CSS and (X)HTML. People are getting comfortable with unobtrusive Javascript. And a certain orange book that kicked the revolution off has just launched it’s green second edition

And tables are back on the agenda. No, not for layout: those days are gone. I’m talking about standards-compliant tables for showing tablular information. Luke Wroblewski takes a look at the useability of data tables in Refining Data Tables and provides some pointers on helping people get to the data they most want to see by filtering, searching and sorting.

Luke doesn’t talk much about how any of this would be implemented so I went through my bookmarks and dug up a few ‘table’ links:

It is only fair to start the list off with a quick introduction to how tables should be used in HTML. Bring on the Tables also has a good ‘further reading’ list at the end.

Then, Better Zebra Tables a revised version of an unobtrusive script to stripe table rows for better discrimination. This version also highlights the current row.

This is one smart table sorting script: Standardista Table Sorting No more sorting on the server-side: Plonk the data down on the client and let them arrange it as they will.

Any others I’ve missed?

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