November 2005

Monthly Archive

Thu 17 Nov 2005

Shift Clickable Checkboxes

Posted by mike under Web Technologies
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One of the helpful little things that most desktop apps know how to do is handle the
shift-click in order to make multiple selections. The place where this is most obviously
missing when it comes to web forms is in a list of checkboxes.
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Tue 8 Nov 2005

Summary/Detail Table

Posted by mike under Web Technologies
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Summary/Detail relationships can be difficult to display in HTML. The
amount of data can often be overwhelming. This is a client side
(JavaScript + CSS) way to hide or display selective detail rows. It follows
the principle of unobtrusive Javascript and it pretty easy to use.
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Sun 6 Nov 2005

Sortable Tables

Posted by mike under Web Technologies
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The principle of unobtrusive javascript has been around for a while, and the old sortable html table thing has been used all over the place. This version has been updated to

  • work with tables that use thead and tbody to separate header rows from content rows,
  • works with tables that use odd/even styling for the data rows,
  • it has a fix for Safari browsers,
  • and it can use different sort types instead of the built in Javascript sort. Notably, the merge sort is
    a stable sort that is pretty fast.

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