5 Aug
2009
5 Aug
'09
3:50 p.m.
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Devs,
as described in http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/bro
wse/XE-472<http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-472> ,
I've rewritten the Sandbox space in syntax 2.0. Since operations in table
(Sum, multiplication etc...) are not yet supported in XWiki 2.0 syntax, I
suggest we remove the Sandbox.TableTraining page for the time being instead
of keeping a XWiki 1.0 syntax page in the Sandbox since it doesn't bring
much value and cannot be converted satisfactorily as of today. I can't
remember any recent email about operations in tables on this list (at least
not in the past 2 years), thus I think removing it won't cause too many
problems. I'll rewrite it later if / when the new syntax supports such
operations once again.
Here's my +1 for removing the Sandbox.TableTraining page.
Thanks for your feedback,
Guillaume
The table training page was supposed to be helpful as a place to try out
the table syntax, and the old WYSIWYG table operations, which was really
bad (non-working features, hard to control, unexpected output...). So,
the real question is: Do people still need to practice their table
handling skills? Is the new WYSIWYG good and intuitive enough?
If not, then we need to keep it there, even if we remove the computation
examples from the old page. Converting pages to the new syntax doesn't
imply a 100% equivalence, which is not always possible to achieve and
most of the times limits the features we can use or expose. Instead of
removing the whole table training document, we can remove just the
computation cells and add instead new features, like table headers in
any place, document blocks inside tables, table row and table cell
formatting, etc.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/