[Javascript] Timing Issues

[David Lovering]

Excellent notion.  However, I'm also betting that people want to "see" the
output before they commit it to a table for reporting to the CEO.

I'll be sure to make the 'table-storage' download feature very prominent, in
hopes it takes some of the heat off the other bits...

-- Dave Lovering

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Roelofs" <rer at datacompusa.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Timing Issues


> 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
>
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