TazeTSchnitzel on Show HN: A souped-up HTML-based table

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Why the special grid/row/cell tags and special data inpits? Why not just use a vanilla HTML table, then you would at least have graceful degradation?

mmurph211OP13y

For the XML format? Good point that would be better.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y

Yeah. What I'm thinking is, instead of loading external XML, you could just have something like:

  <table id=fancy-table>
      <thead>
          <tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th><th>Column 3</th></tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
          <tr><td>Item 1</td><td>Item 2</td><td>Item 3</td></tr>
      </tbody>
  </table>

  <script>
    new Grid("fancyTable", {
      srcType : "html",
      srcData : '#fancy-table',
      allowGridResize : true, 
      allowColumnResize : true, 
      allowClientSideSorting : true, 
      allowSelections : true, 
      allowMultipleSelections : true, 
      showSelectionColumn : true, 
      fixedCols : 1
    });
  </script>

(This way, if JS is unsupported/the JS code breaks/JS is disabled/slow connection/etc., you'll still see the data)

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