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NB: for examples of HTML tables with quite useful features, see Wikipedia / Wikimedia, desktop site.

Sticky headers and often a sortable fields functionality.

I've long wanted to see browsers offer modest spreadsheet-like features for tables. At the very least, the ability to sort, filter, summarise, and compute some simple statistical moments (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, possibly percentiles) of numeric ranges. Pivot tables might also be neat.

No reason this couldn't be a basic browser affordance.




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