Each axis is either a Search (e.g. {"type": "Company"}, or a list of arbitrary cards (e.g. selected "fields" hard-formatted on Company cards - via a Pointer card?). Then in the simple case, each cell is populated with the content of card A+B where A is the card of the row you're on and B is the card of the column you're on (row/column can be vice-versa). The complex case is contextual - in a table included on page A, each cell is A+B+C

--John Abbe.....Thu Jan 24 23:02:24 PST 2008

 

Public Wagns would be improved and easier to maintain with this.

 

Compare a MediaWiki-based report generator: http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

A wider scope for tables would be any two-dimensional (or even N-dimensional?) representations of a bunch of cards. Above is something like a spreadsheet, but think of a table as a piece of furniture you can lay out cards on. A Wagn table could allow for arbitrary placement of cards via drag-and-drop, like icon view in a file browser window, or Rhizosphere. The arrangement of cards would be saved with the table card, the same way that the order of Pointer items is stored in the Pointer.

 

(Also, polar vs. Cartesian; other coordinate systems?)