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Does anyone know any similar projects that can render to an HTML canvas?
Perspective seems to be the most performant html table. It is more focused on extremely fast updates than styling, although it looks good.
Glide is a newcomer that also renders to canvas.
The top and bottom horizontal rules on the Title appear to be superfluous, and I dislike how it is aligned with the first column (row labels) rather than the second. I feel like a little space to breath at the bottom, along with a bold font would add visual hierarchy w/o the clutter.
The row label backgrounds are far too dark and the font weight makes it hard to read. I'd prefer a very light blue here instead. I don't like the row group label ("Name") being italicized.
The spanner labels floating in the centre make the table hard to scan. Would be much nicer aligned left.
Finally, I really dislike the font (maybe this is just my browser, though).
I mocked-up some of the changes here, I think this is a much easier to read table:
I don’t want to have to use some JS library component just to show tabular data especially given how badly they perform one big - but a server side rendered HTML table can be enormous and render fine. But again, so limited.
I'm interested in the midcentury modern ones because they have lots of vertical rules. I'm active on the subreddit for LaTeX and there is a religion common there that even one vertical rule is an unforgivable abomination.
Great summary of the problem on StackOverflow: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/40555
I just made a table this morning for Calc II notes. The first column says something like $f'(x)$ in the first row and $f'(0)$ on the second. The table body lists values for different functions, one per column. I put in a column rule separator because the leftmost column seems separate from the others.
In any event, I'm suspicious of rules (pun noted).
I just wanted to say that Rich is the only software developer I know, who when asked to lay out the philosophy of his package, would give you 5,000 years of history on the display of tables. :)
The example they show of a Great Table is, to my taste, way too busy. Here is my unsolicited opinion: The top and bottom horizontal rules on the Title appear to be superfluous, and I dislike how it is aligned with the first column (row labels) rather than the second. I feel like a little space to breath at the bottom, along with a bold font would add visual hierarchy w/o the clutter. The row label backgrounds are far…
