Once upon a time there were fabulous tools for creating HTML tables.<\/p>\n
Twenty years later the dominant web authoring tool, WordPress, has no native table support.<\/p>\n
I have never gotten a good explanation for the death of tables.<\/p>\n
So I’ll venture a guess.<\/p>\n
I think it was CSS. I wonder if it’s just too hard to put HTML’s table model together with CSS.<\/p>\n
If this is true then my CSS dislike will double …<\/p>\n
Update 2\/19\/2018<\/strong>: @clarkgoble creates his tables in Numbers then posts into MarsEdit (choose paste and preserve formatting!). I tried it and it works! I also installed the popular tables plugin for WordPress but it’s a poor substitute for native support. I wish MarsEdit did tables, but they didn’t make the recent big update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once upon a time there were fabulous tools for creating HTML tables. Twenty years later the dominant web authoring tool, WordPress, has no native table support. I have never gotten a good explanation for the death of tables. So I’ll … Continue reading