Talk:Second Avenue Subway/blocktable-tests

Experimenting to improve the Planned construction methods table.

nested tables

Maybe a table-of-tables with each inner table being a single column-pair? That way the wiki source contains the whole list in order instead of interleaved across each table row...easier to adjust where the column sets break/flow.

Street Construction method 124-125 Cut and Cover 123-124 Cut and Cover 122-123 Cut and Cover etc.

Street Construction method 96-97 Cut and Cover 95-96 Cut and Cover 94-95 TBM etc.

Street Construction method 68-69 TBM 67-68 TBM 66-67 TBM etc.

Street Construction method 40-41 TBM 39-40 TBM 38-39 TBM etc.

column flow breaks

Might be nice to have each column-set with parallel numbering (124|94|64|34 instead of 124|96|68|40)...easier to find a given number? Would mean last column-set is shorter than the rest.

Construction Method labels

Probably better to have an abbreviation for each instead of sometimes "TBM" but other times "Mined with Cut and Cover". Long strings make it hard to have a consistent table-layout spacing and/or hard to have a table look good on different screen sizes. Put a mini-table at the end as a key, with each color, the abbreviation, and what it represents (maybe with a wikilink to something relevant).

"draw" streets, method between them

Looks strange to have a list 124-125, 123-124, 122-123, etc. Wonder if we can have the first column listing just a cross-street and the second align the construction method between cross-street cells?

Street		Construction method
125
		Cut and Cover
124
		Cut and Cover
123
		Cut and Cover
122
		Cut and Cover
121

Good ideas

I can change the table to fit those suggestions. I'll put it in the talk page by 2006-12-01 17:00 UTC (about 1/3 chance that I might have to wait until Monday, though.) - CoolGuy 01:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)