Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#1

Post by mmurph211 » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 6:34 PM UTC

Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table
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Re: Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#2

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

Why the special grid/row/cell tags and special data inpits? Why not just use a vanilla HTML table, then you would at least have graceful degradation?

Re: Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#3

Post by mmurph211 » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #2

Why the special grid/row/cell tags and special data inpits? Why not just use a vanilla HTML table, then you would at least have graceful degradation?

For the XML format? Good point that would be better.

Re: Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#4

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 7:02 PM UTC

mmurph211 wrote: post #3

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #2

Why the special grid/row/cell tags and special data inpits? Why not just use a vanilla HTML table, then you would at least have graceful degradation?

For the XML format? Good point that would be better.

Yeah. What I'm thinking is, instead of loading external XML, you could just have something like:

  
      
          Column 1Column 2Column 3
      
      
          Item 1Item 2Item 3
      
  

  
    new Grid("fancyTable", {
      srcType : "html",
      srcData : '#fancy-table',
      allowGridResize : true, 
      allowColumnResize : true, 
      allowClientSideSorting : true, 
      allowSelections : true, 
      allowMultipleSelections : true, 
      showSelectionColumn : true, 
      fixedCols : 1
    });

(This way, if JS is unsupported/the JS code breaks/JS is disabled/slow connection/etc., you'll still see the data)

Re: Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#5

Post by hayksaakian » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 7:18 PM UTC

I'm wondering what the checkboxes are for in the demo.

Re: Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#6

Post by matthuggins » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 7:24 PM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #5

I'm wondering what the checkboxes are for in the demo.

Also, why are they checkboxes if I can only select one row? They should be radio buttons. (Cool demo though!)

Re: Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

#7

Post by mmurph211 » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 7:32 PM UTC

matthuggins wrote: post #6

hayksaakian wrote: post #5

I'm wondering what the checkboxes are for in the demo.

Also, why are they checkboxes if I can only select one row? They should be radio buttons. (Cool demo though!)

Thanks! The checkboxes are there for show, no hooks on them in the demo. You can select multiple rows using the checkboxes or the control or shift keys. If the option allowMultipleSelections is false then the checkboxes become radio buttons.