Posted by NvrBst on 01/13/08 22:23

On Jan 13, 12:52 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit NvrBst:
>
> > On Jan 13, 5:38 am, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
> > <a.nony.m...@example.invalid> wrote:
> > ...
>
> That pseudoquotation doesn't really give us much context, does it?
>
> > Ahh, the data can get very wide because of the number columns
> > returned.  Some of the tables have thousands of cells (The site runs
> > on an intranet so bandwidth isn't an issue).
>
> Is meaningfulness an issue? What would anyone _do_ with such a table?
> This reminds me of the good old days when I worked in a computing centre
> where line printers were the main output device, and there was a
> researcher who printed out hundreds of pages about daily, picked up the
> listing, flipped over to a certain page, looked at a number and threw
> the listing away. He just couldn't be bothered to modify his output
> routines to print just the data he actually needed.
>
> Consider letting users select the data they need (typically, via a form
> on a web page). This means some hard work to some programmer(s), but
> once done, it saves a lot of labor and time.
>
> > Anyway, baically the column headers usally go something like "Msg / X1
> > Acks / X2 Acks / X1 N-Acks / X2 N-Acks / Rty 1 / Rty 2 / ... / Rty N /
> > Dup Msg / Dup Overlap / etc".
>
> Is this explanation supposed to help?
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

LOL I did the pseudoquotation because I thought that you thought the
quotes were getting to long ("Don't forget to snip sig lines").
Anyway, as I said, I don't see how the column headers are relevant.
1000px isn't that wide and when you have many columns its easy to have
1000px width tables (the explanation was to illustrate the number of
columns).

The data is mainly used to troubleshoot problems... anything could be
meaningful to the one trying to figure out whats wrong. There are
other gadgets on the page to help figure out whats going on, and to
organize/sort/hide data.


I'm sorry... this may just be my own ignorance but I don't see why
this information is relevant to any of the questions. All I asked was
a simple layout question "how can you figure out which cell(s) will
expand in a 2x2 table if 1 column is rowspaned and the rowspaned cell
has lots of data in it". The answer was you don't (could be first 1,
could be 2nd one, could be both... And to have the ability to control
something like that then use CSS layout or nested tables).

If your speaking in relation to the min-width / CSS approach then all
you should have to know is that one of the cells widths is very
dynamic and A) forcing the width to be the same for all, or B)
dynamically setting min-width arn't really options I'm fond of.

NB

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