Comment #3 on issue 6001 by choicesmade: HTML tables should have a specific context-menu to allow opertions like sorting. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6001
I am sorry but I have to disagree. When chromium displays a textarea, it gives the user the ability to resize it, in case it was too small. We could take the same stand and say that the web designer knows what size he wanted the textarea to be. However chromium provides this feature to make the browsing experience smoother, especially for web pages that were not designed with big concerns on ergonomics. Most non-business webpages do not possess this sorting feature because: * A while ago, this kind of on-the-fly DOM modifications seemed complicated. * Some websites were designed with no real focus on usability. Nonetheless I am often confronted to web pages were I would like to sort the data that is displayed. As sorting would be an optional feature, I do not see how it compromises the integrity of the webpage. What if the webpage author wants the table to display as is? Well nothing prvents me from copying the data into Excel anyway. I do not see how this is different, except that it gives the end user the extra flexibility. I would classify this in the same category as plugins such as SkypePlugin, that turns phone numbers into links. Is this really out of the question? I can understand that the "kryogenix" table header modification can be considered as intrusive, but what about a context-menu? Otherwise, what about an option deeper in the menus? We do have the inspector that allows changing the page content (changing the text, disabling styles...), this doesn't seem very different to me. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
