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Splitting after 2017: Suggestion

GodeNehler: The splitting between 2017 and 2018 did make the timeline complicated to use and uneasy to read. In the Template:Canon EF Mount prime lenses timeline and other lens timelines it's visible that displaying 1987-2018 works well.
I suggest to undo the separation of 2018-∞ and merge the timeline. --Angerdan (talk) 12:34, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Angerdan, I thought abut another solution: to split the Template:Canon EF Mount prime lenses timeline too. I think the lists getting over time to big, and at a 13" Laptop screen, they are getting to big. Maybe a split at e.g. 2000 would make the split more equal, but 30 years was acceptable at my screen. --GodeNehler (talk) 17:49, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With 1366x768px resolution, only the 4-digit year numbers are using space outside the cells. So a small design change would fix this. For example take a look at de:Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Pentax KAF-Objektive/Zeitleiste. And even then it's possible to step down to 1 digit year numbers like at Template:Nikon DSLR cameras or Template:Nikon film SLR cameras.

Advantage also for users with low resolutions, since the vertical size of the tables is much smaller with one single table timeline. --Angerdan (talk) 18:56, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't say NO, but I think this is only a short term solution, so we will have the same problem some years later, and I think at this long list it is hard to identify an exact year somewhere at the end. --GodeNehler (talk) 21:08, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In the future the software (browser, wikipedia) and hardware development maybe offers new solutions and possibilities in a speed correlating to the expansion of the timeline length.

Also there are still possibilities to save horizontal space (rowspan at focal length is 8, can be reduced by separating the aperture into a own column like at Template:Pentax K-mount AF lenses timeline --Angerdan (talk) 22:24, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With the recent merging and optimizations even WXGA (1366x768px) shows more information than before and uses less space (~4 printing pages instead of 6 with the merged timeline). --Angerdan (talk) 11:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New version for RF mount lenses

I hate to say that I have no experience making tables on wikipedia but I would appreciate if someone could make a new version of this template for RF mount zooms and primes. Scyth3934 (talk) 01:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Scyth3934,

the table already exist. On is on Canon RF lens mount - a version wich I personally don't like. An alternative is Template:Canon RF-lenses. GodeNehler (talk) 06:07, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]