Friday, September 5th, 2008
jTPS: Animated Sortable Datagrid jQuery plugin
Category: jQuery
The data grid above is a jQuery plugin jTPS that creates a table you can sort and page through, using nice animations, all via a simple call out:
JAVASCRIPT:
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$(document).ready(function () {
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$(’#TABLETOCONTROL’).initTable( {perPages:[5,12,15,50,'ALL']} ).controlTable();
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});
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3.8 rating from 32 votes
Cool, but why have an annoying animation? Thank god that no operating system animates grids.
If animation is what the developer calls the effect when the paging is invoked, I don’t mind it all. It’s fast and very effectively catches the user’s eye to inform him/her that the content has changed. The rest of the controls such as sorting on a column or changing rows per page don’t seem to be animated. The only problem I can see with this is that you still need to load the entire dataset onto the page, so if you have a large recordset like say 1000 entries, it’s going to be quite laggy. It would be cool if it retrieved the following pages by JSON or Ajax, but I guess that would also require a server component as well.
Something is funky about the sort. I think it’s not stable or something.
For chrissakes people, it’s not a grid, it’s a table.
In a grid, I can arbitrarily place any datum in any (x,y) coordinate. in a table I cannot because the columns are typed.
corollary: sorting a grid makes no sense.
@randomrandom:
why sorting maikes no sense?