Tables

[BeeDee]

I know that HTML is disabled on the board - and I understand that there's a very good and valid security reason for this. It would be nice, though, to find some way to be able to use tables in posts. Tables are especially useful when posting stats and lists. Right now, there's no good way to format those things. For instance, if someone wanted to post this list (here's a screenshot):

http://www.servercentrix.com/albums/sectalk_news/sos.jpg

It would come out looking like this, unless the poster spent a lot of time manually formatting it:

2005 Strength of Schedule
Rnk School Conf. Rating
1 North Carolina ACC 1.3893
1 Georgia Tech ACC 1.3893
3 West Virginia Big East 1.385
3 Rutgers Big East 1.385
5 Notre Dame Independent 1.380
6 Kentucky SEC 1.369
7 Syracuse Big East 1.320
8 South Florida Big East 1.293
9 Georgia SEC 1.287
10 Connecticut Big East 1.276
10 Pittsburgh Big East 1.276
12 Cincinnati Big East 1.258
13 Arizona Pac-10 1.2718
13 Stanford Pac-10 1.2718

There are hacks/patches/mods available for phpBB (I know you're not running phpBB, but it's the same basic concept) that'll allow table support without enabling HTML. Is there any chance that you guys might look into this for vBulletin?

Here are some links that might be of interest:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/archive/index.php/t-224382.html
http://www.phpbb2.de/ftopic17268.html