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Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid53c059c90510251002h3cc9bdc1xed4b95af2f75f94c@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I'm not sure I agree. When a table is presented, it's the
'keys' that are the things being looked up. My original motivation for
the table was to help people quickly answer the question: "I'm using
<blah> software, what sort of DAV abilities does it have?" </blockquote>
This does not constitute a disagreement with what I said. I merely
meant that for
a table of this size, the "values" are as easy to find as the "keys",
especially since you had them sorted by the values instead of the keys
anyway. If you were really trying to quickly answer the question,
"What does my software FOO do WebDAVvily?" you would have sorted the
list by the names of the softwares instead of employing semi-random
sorting and grouping them by the
categories you define in the surrounding text.
<blockquote
cite="mid53c059c90510251002h3cc9bdc1xed4b95af2f75f94c@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">By ordering the table as you do above, you're answering a
different question: "what apps use DAV implementation <blah>?"
And I don't think that's a common question. People don't walk into
this chapter knowing about the different sorts of DAV implementations,
so they're not likely to ask that question (even if they've just read
the implementation definitions). <br>
</blockquote>
I kinda doubt the claim that this is the more common question. But
granted, I haven't been swimming in the <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users@subversion.t.o">users@subversion.t.o</a> list for
quite some time -- I can defer to you here.<br>
<br>
But let's get beyond this, shall we? As I stated, I don't care if you
put a table in the appendix, but I <i>do</i> care that it employ the
layout that best achieves the goal. If the goal is, "Tell folks what
software FOO does", then tell them directly, without unnecessary
intersection tracing:<br>
<br>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#cccccc" valign="top"><b><small>Software<br>
</small></b></td>
<td bgcolor="#cccccc" valign="top"><b><small>Type<br>
</small></b></td>
<td bgcolor="#cccccc" valign="top"><b><small>Description<br>
</small></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><small>Adobe Photoshop<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>standalone WebDAV application<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>Able to read from and write to WebDAV URLs<br>
</small></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><small>Cadaver<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>standalone WebDAV application<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>command-line WebDAV client utility<br>
</small></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><small>DAV Explorer<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>standalone WebDAV application</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>Java-based GUI WebDAV client utility<br>
</small></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><small>dav2fs<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>WebDAV filesystem implementation<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small>Linux filesystem module<br>
</small></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><small>...<br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small><br>
</small></td>
<td valign="top"><small><br>
</small></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
I think you'll find this to be much more useful as a quick reference --
more information presented in a more straightforward way.<br>
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