Richard, I don't know how well SlickGrid aligns with what most people would expect of a jQueryUI Grid plugin. The key difference is that most of the grid implementations listed on the jQuery UI wiki (jqGrid, DataTables, ...) focus too much on being able to work with data (search, sort, parse, ajax load, etc.) and not enough on being a better "grid" (or in case of editable grids, a spreadsheet). It's great if all you want to do is to "spruce up" an HTML TABLE, but too inflexible for anything more. SlickGrid itself only deals with rendering, virtual scrolling, keyboard navigation, loading cell editors when needed, managing validation state, doing common things like column resize/reorder and passing events through to the Controller. The core code is very concise. If you want it to do more, add custom cell formatters, rich cell editors, a Model that implements filtering, expand/collapse, sorting, ajax-loading, etc. You're not locked in to any particular way of doing anything. (Again, I apologize for the lack of design documentation and MVC examples - I'm working on that.)
Dojo Grid is somewhat similar in its approach and functionality. The reason I decided to implement my own is because Dojo Grid is way too heavy-handed for my taste. Too complex with too many dependencies. There's no reason you can't have all of that in a small and simple component. The other reason was their implementation of virtual scrolling - it just wasn't responsive enough for me. SlickGrid dynamically switches between synchronous and asynchronous rendering in order to deliver the fastest rerendering possible. I would love nothing more than for this to become part of jQuery UI. If you go over the code and the examples and decide that this is in line with where you want to take GridTable, email me directly at michael.leib...@gmail.com. Thanks, +Michael On Mar 14, 6:35 am, "Richard D. Worth" <rdwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael and Anatoly (and anyone else that my be interested), I hope you > consider joining us with your efforts over here: > > http://wiki.jqueryui.com/GridTable > > Thanks. > > - Richard > > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:19 AM, AnatolyG <anat...@geyfman.net> wrote: > > > Michael, > > > Great job. I built a prototype of my own table for the same reasons a > > few months ago. The grid looks good, but for my purposes (and I am > > sure for many others), while having an array of rows is great and > > useful, the plugin should be able to create such tables from a regular > > <table> element. I am working on an enterprise app that outputs via > > xslt a table with a bunch of data, and it would be great to run this > > code as a plugin to convert the table (with rules for each column?) > > into a spreadsheet like in your last example. Should be fairly > > straight forward to do that.. > > > I am also looking for sorting (shouldn't be too bad), locking columns, > > locking header (done) and locking footer. I implemented these in my > > prototype already, as well as the rendering from table element. > > Anyway, I would love to help out in some capacity, if you're looking > > to develop this further. > > > Anatoly > > > On Mar 9, 5:31 am, Tin <michael.leib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > I've been working on a grid/spreadsheet control prototype during the > > > last couple of weeks. Seeing how there doesn't seem to be a lot of > > > other choices for this sort of thing, I had to write my own. I've put > > > the project up on Google Code and am looking for experienced > > > developers who can pick this up and turn it into something that > > > everybody can use (a jQuery UI grid plugin?). > > > > The project is hosted athttp://code.google.com/p/slickgrid/. > > > Below is a copy of the project home page. > > > > Looking forward to your feedback! > > > > Michael Leibman > > > michael.leib...@gmail.com > > > Principal Engineer > > > Daptiv Inc. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------- > > > > SlickGrid > > > > What it is > > > > Quite simply, SlickGrid is a JavaScript grid/spreadsheet component. > > > > Some highlights: > > > > Virtual scrolling/rendering (hundreds of thousands of rows) > > > Extremely fast rendering speed > > > Configurable & customizable > > > Full keyboard navigation > > > Resizable/reorderable columns > > > Custom cell formatters & editors > > > Support for editing and creating new rows. > > > "GlobalEditorLock" to manage concurrent edits in cases where multiple > > > Views on a page can edit the same data. > > > Why? > > > > This is pretty much a work-in-progress prototype, so I don't feel like > > > spending a lot of time documenting it at this stage. I do think it is > > > quite promising though, so I'm putting it up for everybody to see and > > > play with. In its current form, it satisfies nearly all of the > > > requirements for the project I am working on where I am utilizing it > > > in an MVC application, so I'm not sure how much time I can afford on > > > turning SlickGrid into something that would work for everybody. If you > > > are willing to help out - let me know, and I'll add you to the project > > > so that you can contribute. > > > > Examples > > > > Basic use:http://slickgrid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/example1-simple.html > > > > Adding some formatting: > >http://slickgrid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/example2-formatters.html > > > > Turning it into a spreadsheet: > >http://slickgrid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/example3-editing.html > > > > A more comprehensive test page: > >http://slickgrid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/grid.html > > > > Documentation > > > > See comments at the top ofhttp:// > > slickgrid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/slick.grid.js.
