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Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by m_mueller »

theallan wrote: post #33

DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing software already there :-) Very happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

Thanks for writing this piece of software! I appreciate all the configurability. One thing that irks me bit, is the way action buttons are handled (using TableTools, ColVis and the like). Ideally I'd like to place and style the buttons the way I want and just have JS handles for activating their functions as well as state change events. Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't find how to do this from looking at the documentation as well as the ColVis source code. Did I miss something or do you have plans changing this in the future?

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by theallan »

m_mueller wrote: post #41
theallan wrote: post #33

DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing software already there :-) Very happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

Thanks for writing this piece of software! I appreciate all the configurability. One thing that irks me bit, is the way action buttons are handled (using TableTools, ColVis and the like). Ideally I'd like to place and style the buttons the way I want and just have JS handles for activating their functions as well as state change events. Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't find how to do this from looking at t…

Plans to change it in the future. I'm planning on merging the abilities of ColVis (given that it just calls a standard DataTables API method) into TableTools and improving the TableTools API / configuration options. At the moment ColVis is a little bit lagging while waiting for this to be implemented - which will be the first thing on the cards when DataTables 1.10 is released.

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by m_mueller »

theallan wrote: post #42
m_mueller wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for writing this piece of software! I appreciate all the configurability. One thing that irks me bit, is the way action buttons are handled (using TableTools, ColVis and the like). Ideally I'd like to place and style the buttons the way I want and just have JS handles for activating their functions as well as state change events. Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't find how to do this from looking at t…

Plans to change it in the future. I'm planning on merging the abilities of ColVis (given that it just calls a standard DataTables API method) into TableTools and improving the TableTools API / configuration options. At the moment ColVis is a little bit lagging while waiting for this to be implemented - which will be the first thing on the cards when DataTables 1.10 is released.

Thanks, that's good to know. Makes me want to come back to DataTables once these changes are in effect.

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by pingec »

shoebappa wrote: post #9
debaserab2 wrote: post #4

While I have found DataTables to be useful in the past, there are (thankfully) many other alternatives available today with a much saner API. DataTables might have the worst API I've ever seen in a Javascript library. Powerful, yes, but it has the most insane naming conventions I've ever seen. To this day I do not understand why so many properties are prefixed with random letters. There was a time when there wasn't a…

Can you name a few of the alternatives you found? The ability to sort on more than one column ruled out a lot of them for us.

I use kendo grid: http://demos.kendoui.com/web/grid/sorting.html

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by johnny_reilly »

theallan wrote: post #33

DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing software already there :-) Very happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

Hi theallen,

I've made a great deal of use of jqGrid which I've found to be an excellent piece of software. I've always been meaning to give DataTables a try as well but haven't yet got round to it. Assuming you're aware of jqGrid how would you compare / contrast it with DataTables?

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by gogiel »

johnny_reilly wrote: post #45
theallan wrote: post #33

DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing software already there :-) Very happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

Hi theallen, I've made a great deal of use of jqGrid which I've found to be an excellent piece of software. I've always been meaning to give DataTables a try as well but haven't yet got round to it. Assuming you're aware of jqGrid how would you compare / contrast it with DataTables?

jqgrid is piece of crap from programmer's point of view. Its code is a true mess. Its made of callback hell, stupid attribute and variable names (like a, b, c, ap, vp, really wtf) and spaghetti code.

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by theallan »

johnny_reilly wrote: post #45
theallan wrote: post #33

DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing software already there :-) Very happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

Hi theallen, I've made a great deal of use of jqGrid which I've found to be an excellent piece of software. I've always been meaning to give DataTables a try as well but haven't yet got round to it. Assuming you're aware of jqGrid how would you compare / contrast it with DataTables?

Absolutely aware of jqGrid, but to be honest I can't comment on how it compares to DataTables has I've never really worked with jqGrid. Perhaps I've taken the wrong approach, but I've tended not to look at the other table libraries, focusing instead on making DataTables as good as I can for its intended purpose on its own. Having said that, I'm sure there is inspiration I can take from the other libraries, as some are very impressive.

Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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theallan wrote: post #33

DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing software already there :-) Very happy to answer any questions if anyone has any!

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Re: DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery

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Post by Davertron »

Do you still have to set the column widths explicitly? That was one of the main reasons I had to drop this lib, because we had dynamic data and I didn't want to deal with adding a bunch of JavaScript on top to resize columns on the fly when the data changed.
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