Re: Naming a display grid?

Subject: Re: Naming a display grid?
From: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>
To: "Geoff Hart" <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:00:39 +0100

>
> This description suggests that you mean a "table", which is the
> ubiquitous word for this kind of presentation of information. If
> that's correct, then "display grid" is the $100 phrase for a $1
> concept, and most of your audience (people like me, with a beer
> budget rather than a champagne budget) won't have the faintest idea
> what you mean.

In my view, calling a table a "display grid" is a bit like calling a
spade an earth-inverting horticultural implement.

Regards
Jonathan West
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