Timeline for New Feature: Table Support
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| Oct 15, 2023 at 15:06 | comment | added | Luuk | For completeness, this bug info: Rendered view requires blank line before (and after) tables, but preview works regardless, create Jan 10, 2021 at 10:15,more than 2 years ago ... | |
| May 5, 2022 at 7:44 | answer | added | GSerg | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 13, 2022 at 7:47 | answer | added | Hubert Schölnast | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 9:13 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Was it rolled out to all Stack Exchange sites? Perhaps update the question (incl. date information and possible exceptions)? | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 18:25 | answer | added | Scott Seidman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 14:14 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 28, 2021 at 23:23 | history | edited | TylerH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Adding important clarification.
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 14:56 | answer | added | ruffin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 7, 2021 at 23:31 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 21:15 | answer | added | user1271772 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 16, 2021 at 9:23 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jan 13, 2021 at 17:02 | answer | added | Jonathan Leffler | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 0:01 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 7, 2021 at 18:37 | answer | added | samanthaj | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 17:01 | history | unprotected | Catija | ||
| Jan 6, 2021 at 15:42 | answer | added | Amal K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 21:39 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: -4 | |
| Dec 23, 2020 at 22:44 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
No longer relevant as support exists on all sites
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| Dec 18, 2020 at 6:19 | answer | added | Squirrelkiller | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | Holger | Ok. I’m not sure whether someone searching for tables in meta.stackexchange.com/help/formatting will try the “advanced editing” link. It’s easy to overlook, especially as it is only at the beginning but the reader will go through the page to the end, before realizing that the topic they searched for isn’t there. I think, another instance of the link at the end could be helpful. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 12:16 | history | edited | Ham VockeStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 12:15 | comment | added | Ham Vocke StaffMod | @Holger it's in the advanced formatting section. I messed up the link. Fixed. | |
| Dec 16, 2020 at 11:27 | comment | added | Akina | The tables produced are beautiful, of course, but they're too high it seems. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 8:16 | comment | added | Flimm | How will tables render on mobile? | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 16:57 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 11, 2020 at 15:48 | comment | added | Tech Expert Wizard |
@Catija OK, thanks! (1) Good point. He deserves the reputation that he gets from this post for all the hard work; I like tables and now we don't have to use the ----------- and ||||||| kind of table. (2) Sorry, I didn't know when it actually started being featured, since the date was November 23, so I thought that it had already been featured a long time. I know that posts never start out as featured, but I thought just maybe 2 days after it was posted it got featured. Thanks for the advice!
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:24 | comment | added | Catija | @TheTechExpertGuy That's not really how Community Wikis work. A CW is a signal that the post is open to editing and contributions from all people who wish to participate. It's not a way to shelter from rep gains. Additionally, this is an important release that Ham led and getting some reputation for that and taking the time to announce and support the release is... totally fair. We do not use CW for announcements. That would be a huge departure from our standards. This is also a big change, which is why it's been featured for a while, but "a pretty long time" is just a week, not so long. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 7:50 | comment | added | Ham Vocke StaffMod | @DavidConrad I get why this is confusing. Let me try to clarify: CommonMark is a popular markdown specification. Switching to CommonMark allowed us to replace our old, hand-rolled Markdown renderers with something off the shelve. CommonMark does not define tables (yet?). The open source renderers we introduced, however, support more than just CommonMark (GFM tables for example). That's the causality. Switching to CommonMark brought us open source renderers and they brought table support. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 23:42 | comment | added | Catija | @DavidConrad There's nothing about following CM that requires you to only allow CM MD. Spoilers also are not in MD but we have our own Spoiler markup that we use here in addition to CM. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 23:36 | comment | added | David Conrad | @Catija No, that is precisely what does not make sense. Tables are supported by CM, despite tables not being in CM. I understood that SE used to use its own MD renderer. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 22:49 | comment | added | Catija | Not quite, @DavidConrad - if I understand correctly, we were using our own internal form of MD, which meant that we had everything built in-house. By switching to CM, we were able to use open source MD renderers... and those do support tables, despite tables not being in CM. Does that make sense? | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 22:26 | comment | added | David Conrad | Maybe I'm missing something, but you say that "CommonMark still doesn't specify tables in version 0.29" and then you say that this was achieved by "[s]witching to CommonMark"? I guess that means CommonMark supports them, but does not specify one particular notation for them? | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 10:06 | answer | added | fedorqui 'SO stop harming' | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 13:06 | answer | added | USERNAME GOES HERE | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 5:41 | comment | added | philipxy | As I predicted in my answer below: stackoverflow.com/questions/65207252/… | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 18:56 | answer | added | jaskij | timeline score: 20 | |
| Dec 8, 2020 at 2:18 | answer | added | Cave Johnson | timeline score: 57 | |
| Dec 7, 2020 at 23:05 | history | edited | Cody Gray - on strike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Let's not lose the waffles!
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| Dec 7, 2020 at 23:05 | history | rollback | Cody Gray - on strike |
Rollback to Revision 8
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| Dec 7, 2020 at 17:22 | history | edited | user1271772 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2020 at 17:00 | history | edited | Ham VockeStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add go-live update
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| Dec 6, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | user1271772 | @V2Blast meta.stackexchange.com/a/357525/391772 | |
| Dec 6, 2020 at 17:20 | answer | added | user1271772 | timeline score: 58 | |
| Dec 6, 2020 at 17:06 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 5, 2020 at 20:36 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 20:32 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 21 | |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 12:46 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
even though it's in the past, I thought "the holiday" needed to be fixed, and the author needed to be reminded we don't all know what "the holiday" is or how long it lasts
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| Dec 4, 2020 at 23:18 | answer | added | a wizard arachnid | timeline score: 27 | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 20:24 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | @HamVocke No, I haven’t found any problems, it’s just that I was worried because it hadn’t been explicitly mentioned. | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 17:08 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 17 | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 11:11 | comment | added | Ham Vocke StaffMod | @AndrewGrimm what kind of disability are we talking about? The HTML tables we're generating are using proper semantics and should work reasonably well for users who are using screen readers. A lot of care goes into our Stacks design system to make sure the colors and fonts we use work for visually impaired users. Accessibility is hard and we don't always get it right, but we're trying. If you notice something specific that's not accessible, please let us know. | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 10:50 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | I'm not disabled, but have you evaluated how well this feature will work for disabled users? | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 21:44 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 14:21 | history | edited | Catija |
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| Dec 3, 2020 at 10:07 | answer | added | Arulkumar | timeline score: 21 | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 17:38 | answer | added | philipxy | timeline score: 18 | |
| Nov 27, 2020 at 13:00 | answer | added | GlorfindelMod | timeline score: 43 | |
| Nov 27, 2020 at 8:13 | comment | added | Ham Vocke StaffMod | @P.Mort.-forgotClayShirky_q I'm still trying to figure out the right course of action for uppercasing headers. I want to run this by our designers once they're back from holiday next week to see if this is something we want to keep or not. | |
| Nov 27, 2020 at 8:10 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Can you address forcing of header content to uppercase? E.g., in section "Limitations". | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 21:46 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 27 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 21:21 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 0:28 | comment | added | Robotnik | This syntax seems fairly similar to Markdown Extended Syntax's tables. | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 13:51 | answer | added | THE JOATMON | timeline score: 30 | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 9:22 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 7:57 | comment | added | Ham Vocke StaffMod | @SonictheK-DayHedgehog I'm still around, just had a busy day yesterday and didn't manage to triage the feedback. I'll catch up on things and will do my best to support the responses in this question throughout the week. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 20:22 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @Catija Even though there won't be any new builds, will the team still be participating in the site in general and making decisions regarding whether or not to implement things? | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Thanks for implementing this. It might be quite handy in some situations. "Teams customers asking for this ..." That made me realize that this community here should have stronger ties to the Teams user community. That way whenever we want something we should tell Teams users how wonderful that would be for Teams first. :) | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 13:51 | history | edited | Luuklag |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 4:36 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 20 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 4:26 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 80 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 2:30 | answer | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | timeline score: 237 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 1:51 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The edits can be performed by any community member on the destination, not just the migrating moderator
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 1:02 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 0:50 | comment | added | V2Blast | @Nick I'd suggest posting that as an answer (and then Ham can copy his comment below that answer) rather than having that important point lost in the comments below the question :) | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | V2Blast | Glad to finally have table formatting, instead of having to rely on complicated MathJax to make "arrays". Hope the rollout goes well! (...Also, it bothers me that that last header about migrated posts is missing a question mark at the end. >.>) | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 22:33 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @Ollie It was added to meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help. We'll update the help center once we're ready to roll support out network-wide. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 22:23 | comment | added | Ollie | Will this be added to the Markdown help page? | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 19:49 | answer | added | Luuklag | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 19:18 | answer | added | Luuklag | timeline score: 123 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 19:14 | answer | added | zcoop98 | timeline score: 45 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 19:09 | answer | added | zcoop98 | timeline score: 35 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 19:07 | comment | added | Ham Vocke StaffMod | @Nick yes, we're going to include buttons for inserting and editing tables in the new editor that we're going to present soon. Tables are complicated so we'll likely need a few iterations to get this right but I think this will be a step in the right direction. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:48 | answer | added | a wizard arachnid | timeline score: 36 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:23 | comment | added | Sebastian Simon | There are a few table posts now in the Formatting Sandbox, e.g. this one highlighting a few differences between preview and finished post — and of course the usual sandbox weirdness. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:23 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 33 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:17 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 72 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:15 | answer | added | bad_coder | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:11 | comment | added | Catija | @Ollie Clearly, we're so excited about them, we don't want to let you hide them! :P (My guess, they're both not CommonMark, so they don't play well together) Feel free to post as an answer | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:09 | comment | added | Ollie | Not sure if it's a bug, but the tables work in blockquotes. Not spoilers. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | bad_coder | Timely advice to readers, the easiest way is writing your tables in a spreadsheet and exporting in one of the markdown supported formats. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 17:22 | comment | added | Nick is tired | Is there a plan to add a table button (wizard, csv converter, something?) to the editor for those... less fluent in md? | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 17:20 | answer | added | a wizard arachnid | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 17:14 | answer | added | a wizard arachnid | timeline score: 51 | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 17:05 | history | edited | Ham VockeStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 16:54 | history | asked | Ham VockeStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |