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This looks good, but it reminds me of a problem I've noticed in this situation: the truncated cells have virtually no information. Take this example data:
by kwillets 9y ago
This looks good, but it reminds me of a problem I've noticed in this situation: the truncated cells have virtually no information.
Take this example data:
999995
999998
999999
Imagine we have 5 display digits available; the default method is to display
99999
99999
99999
But it might be better to show the distinguishing digit. eg:
99..5
99..8
99..9
However I don't know what the best design or display pattern for that would be.
- jessekorzan 9y agoNice eye. Thanks for this... good enhancement. A good option for display, as it depends on what kind of numbers are being displayed and compared (fractions vs. big whole numbers).
- kwillets 9y agoIn my case I was thinking of long strings such as SQL queries. We would show a few initial words, but in SQL they're typically the same. For example: select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'West' select sum(sales) from tablexyz where region = 'South' In this case I think we want the distinguishing word or token, and we can fill the remaining space with text from the left, eg "select sum(sales)..'South'". I could write out some javascript for this, but IANA front-end or css expert.