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Looks really nice, except for the constant column resizing.


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Yeah, column resize is kind of a normal thing; I guess they will add that soon enough.

Reducing maximum column width would also be my #1 suggestion.

Maybe that can be taken care of through themeing/browser plugins? If anyone has good ones to recommend, suggestions appreciated.


Love everything apart from the fixed-width main column. Leaves me with huge margins at either side with my usual window width.

Thank you! This is exactly the same render that I get. I could try and widen the column. I've grown to like the narrower width when reading graphics papers like this but I understand it's not for everybody.

Some columns have large size variance. You are hedging against them growing. It's almost never a problem on fixed size columns.

Yeah. That is annoying. Here is the bug about making the columns resizable:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463423


the column on the right takes whole lot of space from README. It just looks very annoyingly un-balanced.

Thanks, and I agree, the columns should have constant width after initial data load. I could also add column width as optional configuration.

Hey @anonzzzies, first of all I am still alone working on this project right now. Please see my response above on column resizing, it will not come anytime soon I think.

Responsive design to adjust column width might be useful.

One small flaw: the columns have huge gutters at high resolutions. Example: http://i.imgur.com/BJD5N8o.png

The image example is for effect, but it does look goofy at 1980px viewport width too.


I think this is actually a little subtle: if you don’t have fixed-width columns then changing the visibility (or more strictly the display property) of rows can require column widths to be recalculated which is often pretty slow. It’s easy to say that obviously you should just set fixed widths but it is pretty hard to decide what they should be in practice if you want the page to still work when someone resizes their window.

Looks nice, though I feel keeping the right 2 columns at a fixed position would make things easier to read.

I actually like it quite a bit . . . The lack of triple-nested faux windows is nice and I usually set things to display compactly anyway, so there's that.

It looks like some people are having font issues, though. I'm not seeing any overlap between the columns, but there's a lot visible in some of the linked images.


Awesome! Looking forward to next week's post about the resizable column feature.

Oh great! I guess the columns are not properly rendered because there are a lot of columns. That looks like a bug to me. I just created two issues and will release a bug fix soon.

Thanks!


It's not entirely fixed-width, though. One nested column (the one containing the actual content) is fixed-width and left-justified within another column that expands to fill the window with whitespace. It's hideous.

Thanks for letting me know. I'm not sure how to make it look pretty in < 80 columns without making it incredibly long.

the column on the right takes whole lot of space from README, which looks annoyingly mis-aligned.
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