KuhlKatz
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- Joined
- Oct 10, 2006
- Posts
- 142
- Location
- Pretoria, South Africa
- Society
- NBK Squadron
- Avatar Name
- Lerac Kuhlkatz Xarnac
Recently I wanted to create a list of my Soc members, and maintain this to include all names & the time zones they appear in.
When I started this out, I looked for some BBCode functionality to create a table. Lo and behold, this did not exist !
There are codes to create lists, which could almost do what I wanted, but that would require some really good formatting, or I'd have to revert to using a fixed-space font like Courier to get it formatted properly.
So I opted to create an HTML list from the Excel sheet, but yet again could not use it as HTML is disabled for security reasons. No problem here, as I can fullly appreciate this.
To get the list out, I had to publish it as an image - horrible format to maintain a list in that changes over time.
In short I had to revert to creating the HTML list, rendering it in a browser, then doing a screenshot of that, use a utility to crop out the list, upload it to EF, and then publish it in my post.
I am no web expert, but can tell that images uses a lot of bandwidth, more so if they are used to represent text that their HTML counterparts could do very simply.
Now take into consideration that EU does not support PNG images, which are far smaller and of higher quality than their JPEG counterparts, and you could see where this goes - Lots of space, lots of bandwith, and a lot of time to maintain something that should be simple.
What I need to know in short, is this :
If similar functionality than this table below could be provided and used in EF, would someone else make use of that, or am I one of a kind ?
Thinking along the lines of EF's Colourer List from Dom_sufc (Johnny Proud) .
When I started this out, I looked for some BBCode functionality to create a table. Lo and behold, this did not exist !
There are codes to create lists, which could almost do what I wanted, but that would require some really good formatting, or I'd have to revert to using a fixed-space font like Courier to get it formatted properly.
So I opted to create an HTML list from the Excel sheet, but yet again could not use it as HTML is disabled for security reasons. No problem here, as I can fullly appreciate this.
To get the list out, I had to publish it as an image - horrible format to maintain a list in that changes over time.
In short I had to revert to creating the HTML list, rendering it in a browser, then doing a screenshot of that, use a utility to crop out the list, upload it to EF, and then publish it in my post.
I am no web expert, but can tell that images uses a lot of bandwidth, more so if they are used to represent text that their HTML counterparts could do very simply.
Now take into consideration that EU does not support PNG images, which are far smaller and of higher quality than their JPEG counterparts, and you could see where this goes - Lots of space, lots of bandwith, and a lot of time to maintain something that should be simple.
What I need to know in short, is this :
If similar functionality than this table below could be provided and used in EF, would someone else make use of that, or am I one of a kind ?
Thinking along the lines of EF's Colourer List from Dom_sufc (Johnny Proud) .