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X Spread Sheet XSS probably not the best abbreviation
I have literally never seen spreadsheet abbreviated as SS. Spreadsheet is one word. Your comment comes off as trying too hard to be negative. Try some actual constructive feedback why don't ya?
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I have literally never seen spreadsheet abbreviated as SS. Spreadsheet is one word. Your comment comes off as trying too hard to be negative. Try some actual constructive feedback why don't ya?
>> I have literally never seen spreadsheet abbreviated as SS. I thought it was pretty common. I guess it depends on the environment you work in.
I think a description of why canvas was used would be nice in the README. My (probably naive) view is that browsers are pretty good at table-ish layouts so it’d be great to know why canvas was chosen.
Another big reason is wasm. It would be a big performance increase to write the layout engine in Rust/wasm. Native performance would be great.
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Although canvas does do grayscale anti-aliasing, this particular app is blurry because the canvas is being rendered at a lower resolution than your screen. To make it crisp, the author would have to set the canvas' javascript canvas.width property to be twice the canvas' css canvas.style.width property.
Yes, oversampling will reduce blurriness but it will be there anyway. ClearType is there for the purpose. Yet all that with the price of memory and CPU consumption - number of pixels to rasterize on 192 PPI monitor is four times of the one with "standard" 96 PPI.
The canvas fonts are fuzzy? Stock OSX and Chrome, 4k display @ 3200 scaled edit: https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet/issues/5
I really like this and I can see the potential, but I certainly miss being able to type directly into the cell as opposed to double-clicking on it first. F2 should also enable editing and toggle between Edit and Enter modes. It's hard to spend more than a few seconds on the demo when my very first interaction with it hits a major roadblock like that.
This is amazing! I'm doing a deep dive into the code now to see how the extensibility is done. Some folks here might be interested in Stencila Sheets too ( https://stenci.la/blog/2017-08-features-stencila-sheets/ , https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/ ), https://github.com/stencila/stencila/tree/develop/src/sheet . It's a web-based spreadsheets where cells can execute other programming languages, such as R or P…
What's happening with Stencila? I only found it recently, and it looks like a potentially fantastic project, but development seems to have slowed right down.
Development of the frontend has indeed slowed down while we focus on more lower-level "backend" tools for research reproduciblity (e.g. https://github.com/stencila/dockter).
But were currently recruiting for a frontend designer and an engineer. So will be definitely be getting back to the interfaces soon!