JS/JQuery Grid Control?

[Eli Cochran]

Clay mentions Flexigrid in another thread.

Flexigrid: http://webplicity.net/flexigrid/

I would also like to put in a vote for this component. I have not used  
it, but a colleague of mine is using it on a commercial project and  
has had very good luck with it.

It does need some work to be made accessible, but if there is some  
consensus in the community to use this component then Fluid might be  
able to work with the developer to add the accessibility hooks using  
our jQuery based keyboard plugin and the jARIA plugin. Using a grid  
based on jQuery makes this work much easier.

(I can't unilaterally promise Fluid's services here, but it is the  
kind of thing that we do.)

- Eli


> I was looking for a good tabular grid for the assignments work, and
> came across Flexigrid: http://webplicity.net/flexigrid/
>
> It seems to be just about exactly what's needed, but I wanted to see
> if anyone out there has had any encounter with it.
>
> ~Clay

> Very cool :), it appears to have some limited calculation  
> functionality. sum, average etc.
> Ian
>
>
>
> On 16 May 2008, at 16:56, Carl Hall wrote:
>
>> Just to throw another bit on the fire, there's also  
>> TrimSpreadsheet.  I haven't looked under the covers on this but the  
>> demos seem pretty interesting.
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/TrimSpreadsheet
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Ian Boston <ieb at tfd.co.uk> wrote:
>> Quick question, how is the work intending to be done ?
>>
>> Is it an improvement to the UI by editing existing screens and  
>> using off the shelf widgets ?
>> Or a larger re-write.
>>
>> If its a large re-write, we could save a massive amount of time  
>> using GWT to build the screens as in the ui is mainly  
>> administrative, and GWT in 1.5 (due out very soon) has full  
>> keyboard accessibility and aria tags (apparently). Being entirely  
>> in client, it would also be much more responsive than the typical  
>> round trip cycle.
>>
>> The other reason for mentioning GWT, is its now possible to build  
>> gadgets in GWT so would fit in with the new UX work that Nathan has  
>> been working on.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16 May 2008, at 15:21, Plourde, Mathieu wrote:
>>
>> Yes, there is a lot to be done in the Gradebook, and that would be  
>> very helpful. I agree! +1
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> =================================
>>
>> Mathieu Plourde, MBA
>> Instructional Designer
>> IT-User Services
>> University of Delaware
>> 192 Chapel Street, room 227-Z
>> Newark, DE 19716
>>
>> Phone: 302-831-4060
>> Fax: 302-831-4205
>> mathieu at udel.edu
>> http://copland.udel.edu/~mathieu/
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>> =================================
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Goodrum [mailto:goodrum at indiana.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:03 AM
>> To: 'Clay Fenlason'; 'Colin Clark'
>> Cc: 'Noah Botimer'; 'James Renfro'; 'sakai-dev sakai-dev'; 'Sakai  
>> UI UI'
>> Subject: RE: JS/JQuery Grid Control?
>>
>> An improved gradebook UI would be warmly received, particularly by  
>> faculty and especially when they have lots of students and lots of  
>> assignments.
>>
>> We have one online course with 600 students per semester and nearly  
>> 200 activities built with a testing tool that feeds results  
>> directly into the gradebook.  The current gradebook doesn't serve  
>> this course very well at this point.
>>
>> The look and feel closer to an online spreadsheet, like in Google  
>> Docs, is an interesting model.
>>
>> +1 for an improved gradebook UI!
>>
>> - David
>>
>> David Goodrum
>> Director, Academic & Faculty Services
>> University Information Technology Services
>> Indiana University
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: khomotso at gmail.com [mailto:khomotso at gmail.com] On Behalf Of  
>> Clay Fenlason
>> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:29 PM
>> To: Colin Clark
>> Cc: Noah Botimer; James Renfro; sakai-dev sakai-dev; Sakai UI UI
>> Subject: Re: JS/JQuery Grid Control?
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Colin Clark  
>> <colin.clark at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> James, what are you actually hoping to build with your grid?
>>
>> I'm going to guess (based on James' physical location and
>> extrapolating from JA-SIG conversations) that it's a new gradebook  
>> UI.
>> I think I looked at this same ext.js one as well, under the impetus
>> of feeling that what my faculty really wanted out of a gradebook was
>> something like Google spreadsheet, but was put off by the kinds of
>> problems Nico noted.
>>
>> ~Clay
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley