I would like to use tables in answers and questions. Without such support, I find myself using ASCII art tables with the code-text tool, but that takes too long, and isn't really maintainable.
This could be used to illustrate memory cells, and of course to create "real tables" with information contained.
It looks like HTML tables using <table>
are not going to be supported. I would like to ask for a feature in the editor that allows and supports creating tables using ASCII art (so the nasty manual managing with spaces will go away), at the very least (no CSS guy - but could imagine there are other styling techniques too).
As a workaround, google chart supports the creation of graphviz diagrams, which is also able to render some limited HTML for creating tables. So the following URL:
chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=gv&chl=digraph html{abc [shape=none,margin=0,label=<<table border="1" cellspacing="2"><tr><td bgcolor="red"><font color="white">Algorithm</font></td><td bgcolor="darkgreen"><font color="white">Example</font></td></tr><tr><td>First Row 1</td><td PORT="tryp">Second Row 2</td></tr><tr><td>Last Row 1</td><td>Last Row 2</td></tr></table>>]; Funny -> abc:tryp:ne;}
Gives when properly encoded this picture