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I haven't had time to check in depth but you might want to take a look at "Developing User Assistance for Mobile Applications" (2e) by Joe Welinske.
He mentions this in general terms, and the suggestion seems to be to abandon tables -- but on a cursory glance I wasn't able to see what he suggests in their place.
He points out a similar issue with images.
Just a thought. Hope that helps. It does seem to be a major paradigm shift.
Thanks for a provocative question, btw.
Steve
On Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:10 AM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
In the old world tables are very useful. There's no better way in print to show a matrix of options, or present a comparison in one glance. For desktop online docs that translates really well... You can even use javascript to turn the table into something a bit more dynamic -- say, enable sorting of rows, for example. But tables require a lot of real estate.Â
What do you do for phones?
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