Fun concept, but the cell text is blurry to the point of being a distraction for me, unfortunately. Is this a side effect of rendering to a canvas?
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#12X 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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#13Nice! Would be interested in how this compares to e.g. handsontable[1]. What do you think of audreyt's ethercalc[2] myliang? [1] https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable [2] https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc
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#14This strongly goes against the best practices for Canvas: https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/#best-practices
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#16I 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.
2 easy to write code
github.com/xspreadsheet used table
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#17I 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.
> 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. The browser certainly makes this convenient... until you have more than a few thousand cells. At some point even just having the whole table loaded into the DOM is too layout and memory intensive (except on servo, sometimes). When you try, then, to work around those limitations, continuing…
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#20Nice work! The UI is really good. In my one of the projects, I was looking for excel kind of functionality - and would like to give it a try. But the biggest value IMO excel offers is ability to define formulas. Is there any plans of adding that functionality?