meh, just playing around a bit.. anyway, most people who visit forums are people who don't have even the slightest idea what a table is. much less what html is or means. so, majority is against. aside from that, people will start to screw up, because they do
not know how tables work. now, you could say I am among those who think tables are the seed of satan, but then again..
what where tables meant to do?
tabulair data, they where meant to display tabulair data. not that this is significant in this topic, but it kills your argument of 'some think it's evil', no we do not think it's evil; we just know what it is for.
and yes, if you hint on the table-like feature of MS WORD, it
could[/b] be usefull. I still wouldn't want to use it on my board though, since the only 'correct' tables people can come up with are WYSIWYG tables. meaning, they can drag the tables out.
do what you want with this ranting if you will, but do understand tables aren't to be used for just about anything.
but, as someone suggested, you can of course make them through the custom bbcode, though that'll guarantee to not work.
[table]
[td]
[tr]w00t! a column [/tr
[th]this.. coold [/th]
[/td]
[/table]
do note that I put the [/tr there on purpose. people will forget this anyway, but the other ones will be parsed. meaning the page will get screwed up. and then the tag mixing, that will obviously happen. I among others really do not see this working..