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Ask HN: Why are decent grid widgets so difficult to find?
In this age of web technologies (let us not forget that it has taken this long to reach AngularJS) why is it so difficult to find a decent grid widget when much of the spectrum of day-to-day commercial computing from system monitoring straight through to business functionality requires dynamic table widgets which have decent sorting and filtering capabilities?
- arthurakay 12y agoThe simple answer is that grids are hard. Everyone loves the simplicity of tabluar, Excel-like data display - yet it's clearly a difficult task to achieve in the browser due to the sheer DOM weight of such widgets. Factor in advanced capabilities like sorting, filtering, customizable display, et al and HTML/JavaScript performance becomes even harder to manage. Sencha's Ext JS framework has had perhaps the industry's best grid widget since 2007. It offers excellent performance, handles infinite data sizes, built-in sorting and filtering, and is completely customizable. If you poke through the Sencha API documentation, you'll see a ton of other features. Try the online example here: http://dev.sencha.com/ext/5.0.1/examples/kitchensink/#grids http://dev.sencha.com/ext/5.0.1/examples/kitchensink/#grids In full disclosure, I work for Sencha.
- gjvc 12y agofrom where on sencha.com can one download extjs 4.2 GPL ?
- arthurakay 12y agoYou can download the Ext JS 5.0.1 GPL at the bottom of this page: http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/details http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/details I'm not sure that we still have the links to 4.2 posted anywhere, and in any case 5.x is definitely the place you'll want to be.
- gjvc 12y agoHello, Thank you for that link. I was beginning to lose faith. gjvc