Aug 21st, 2010, 9:06 AM
Hey guys,
Just to follow up on this. There's some JS code running on that page the adds ellipses (...) to truncate long strings, to help squish all the content into a unwrapped table. The problem is that it doesn't do it's job well enough - table columns do end up appearing as inappropriately small or large sometimes, depending on your data set.
I'm going to log this as a bug. I actually agree with Buttons - I find it a minor annoyance rather than anything else, but it really should be fixed. The problem is that it's not actually that SIMPLE to fix! I'm wondering if perhaps I should provide a separate page for fine-tuning the appearance of the page: i.e. be able to specify column widths and number of chars before (server-side) ellipsis truncation. But this seems like a lot of work for such a small thing though...
hmm, tricky one.
- Ben
Just to follow up on this. There's some JS code running on that page the adds ellipses (...) to truncate long strings, to help squish all the content into a unwrapped table. The problem is that it doesn't do it's job well enough - table columns do end up appearing as inappropriately small or large sometimes, depending on your data set.
I'm going to log this as a bug. I actually agree with Buttons - I find it a minor annoyance rather than anything else, but it really should be fixed. The problem is that it's not actually that SIMPLE to fix! I'm wondering if perhaps I should provide a separate page for fine-tuning the appearance of the page: i.e. be able to specify column widths and number of chars before (server-side) ellipsis truncation. But this seems like a lot of work for such a small thing though...
hmm, tricky one.
- Ben