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@aartaka aartaka commented Sep 29, 2024

This is because default HTML tables are hard to read due to unclear/absent cell borders. See https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-48/srfi-48.html#format ~h and the surrounding cells for an example of such a confusion.

An alternative would be to increase spacing between cells, but this is both eating up screen real estate (especially for me with my x2 scaling), and perpetuating the border clarity problem.

@aartaka aartaka force-pushed the clearer-table-formatting branch from 3ee9e76 to 3665782 Compare September 29, 2024 16:13
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arthurgleckler commented Sep 29, 2024

I see your point, but I don't want to make such a far-reaching change to the look of tables in all SRFIs. However, I have changed srfi.css to add this:

td, th {
  vertical-align: top;
}

This makes tables like the one you referenced in SRFI 48 much easier to read. I'm surprised that it isn't the default for all tables in HTML.

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