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* - this app looks and feels like “almost complete spreadsheet” yet it provides much less than 1% features of even a basic spreadsheet.
Just waiting for the other 20,000 Excel features to be added. :) This may sound like an inane comment, but trying working along Excel power users for the past two decades. Most people have no idea of the crazy, huge, complicated environment that is Excel.
Nice hack, impressive!
Expressions did not evaluate for me. Reading the other comments I think I'm the only one though :-(
Are there any more full-featured libraries that people use for this? I've found SpreadJS[0], GelSheet[1], jQuery.Sheet[2], and ZK Spreadsheet, but none seem like thriving open-source projects as far as I can tell. [0] http://wijmo.com/demo/spreadjs/samples/index.html [1] http://www.gelsheet.org/demo [2] http://visop-dev.com/Project+jQuery.sheet [3] http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkspreadsheet
Many grid (table) widgets support edit-in-place, but that's as far as most of them go. The target userbase for full-featured spreadsheets is going to be users whom I'd presume already have access to Excel (edit: and/or access to a compatible product, like Google's online version or maybe one of the FOSS MSO replacements).
I am impressed. Its a neat hack, it actually is a real spreadsheet in 30 lines of code, with references fully working (ie =A3+B4 gives expected output. As does =alert("foo") but then nothing is perfect). I think it says something about the browser as a platform - these thirty lines simply assume an enormous amount that excel and visicalc could not - visicalc had to write their own screen refresh routines. It is usefu…
Personally I was confused as to how the fellow got around the basics of having to parse tokens until I noticed with (DATA) now that's just genius. I hate writing token parsing.
I am impressed. Its a neat hack, it actually is a real spreadsheet in 30 lines of code, with references fully working (ie =A3+B4 gives expected output. As does =alert("foo") but then nothing is perfect). I think it says something about the browser as a platform - these thirty lines simply assume an enormous amount that excel and visicalc could not - visicalc had to write their own screen refresh routines. It is usefu…
I'm increasingly believing that HTML/CSS/JS in a browser is a viable common runtime. This demo does quite a lot to solidify that belief.
After seeing it working and the few clever lines of code I was really surprised. But then I though: oh, let me go back to HN and read the comments from people saying "BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE CHARTS!!!" and unfortunately comments like that are here. What is wrong with this poeple???