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[quote]Since we have started to add camera details like serial, lens, owner and other characteristics to the Wiki, I think it would be more practical to organize these datasets in tables instead of entering them as text as we do now.
If you look here you'll see the limits of the current method. I spent an evening trying to organize the different columns but it's next to impossible.
http://ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=98&ParentID=1&ContentID=87&Item=FED+1a

The wiki editor includes quite sophisticated table-features, so technically it should be easy to re-write the text to tables and edit/expand them in the future.

However, it currently seems impossible to edit text color and -size in the wiki editor which makes tables almost unusable. The standard color of text in tables is black and it is too large.

I've been experimenting a little here, editing the properties in source code:
http://ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?ContentID=990&ParentID=1&WikiCatID=98

What do you think?
Should we use tables or stick to the current method of simple text?
We could also make the cell borders of the table visible which further increases readability.

<b>Pro:</b>
more professional look
better readability
easier to update and edit if it works right
easier to extract information

<b>Con:</b>
non-trivial for beginners
currently very hard to use as text size and color cannot be edited except in source code
easier to mess up if something goes wrong in editing

Maybe the admin - Vlad? - could somehow add the features to change text size and color to the wiki editor, this would be perfect!

Regards,
Christian

EDIT:
Sorry' I should have put this in the Wiki Catalogue section...[/quote]

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