[Javascript] Timing Issues

[Roger Roelofs]

Dave,

How about creating a separate link to allow the user to download the 
data to an xml or text file.  If they want to do reporting I'm betting 
they are pasting/importing into a spreadsheet or reporting tool anyway.

Roger,


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:10  PM, David Lovering wrote:

> Dear Chris:
>
> All good ideas.  Unfortunately, in the former iteration I did have 
> paging --
> and got complaints from folks who wanted to print entire tables for 
> reports
> without segmentation issues getting in the way of the layout.  Business
> majors -- go figure.
>
> Although I'm certain the 'table per row' solution would work, the 
> overhead
> would be extremely gruesome, and I'll hold that trick in reserve until 
> I've
> exhausted everything else in the bag.
>
> Have you any experience with createElement to "grow" an already 
> displayed
> table?  How does this affect the background latency to load the whole 
> table?
>
> The 'response.flush' feature might indeed work, particularly if I can 
> force
> the event handler to act on it after the "build" of each record.
> Of course, since the screen geometry is set by "worst-case" TD
> widths/heights, the whole screen will jitter like a hornytoad on a 
> hotplate
> as differing field lengths come pouring in.  Hmmm... some testing is in
> order.
>
> -- Dave Lovering