3 ms·

> How many columns/rows can you realistically fit in screen? I don't know why you think many rows is an indication that you're editing. Tables are the first r

> How many columns/rows can you realistically fit in screen? I don't know why you think many rows is an indication that you're editing. Tables are the first resort for reports, and reports tend to have lots of data (i.e., rows). While I'm not a fan of horizontal scrollbars, I absolutely prefer to render thousands of rows with a vertical scrollbar than use pagination. Give me a sort key or two, a filter box, and I'll whittle it down to what I'm interested in. I've seen Airtable show up on some sites lately, and its scrolling performance is abysmal. None of the examples for Grid.js has more than a handful or rows, so I won't take its performance on faith. So far, DataTables has been my go-to option for web tables, but I'd happily switch to something else if it performed as well.

mstade 6y ago
> Give me a sort key or two, a filter box, and I'll whittle it down to what I'm interested in. This is also editing, albeit of the view of the data, maybe I should’ve made clear that that’s what I meant (primarily, anyway.) Thanks for challenging! Grids with massive amounts of data are – in my experience – only used to build models, i.e. sort, filter, aggregate. No one cares tho read more than a couple dozen or so rows, but they do like the ability to chuck a ton of data into the grid and then edit the view by applying various combinations of functions to sort, filter and aggregate the data into something that is more fit for purpose. You don’t need a grid to apply functions to data, it just happens to be a pretty effective interface to do so. But it’s only effective if rendering is fast, and that means someone somewhere will again reinvent virtualized rows. Or you know, just use excel.