So I’m losing my mind trying to wrap Jack Slocum’s table for use in Seamless and things are going alright — I even manage to get it to render in Internet Exploder. Unfortunately, his rendering stuff (or maybe Yahoo!’s?) uses the table’s container sizes to help lay things out (quite logically, actually). The problem with crops up when one tries to render a table when the parent container is initially hidden, i.e. it has a size of zero by zero pixels — not conducive to rendering, of course. After two weeks of hacking away at this, getting things working little by little and then running into a lack of dynamic resizability/flow control, I gave up.
Jeff and Nolan were open to just rewriting the entire widget as a lightweight custom renderer instead. The new Seamless table is really just an iterator that loops over a html template, specified inside of our seamless:iterator tag. The convenient thing about it is you can make the table look like anything you want plus it’s significantly faster than the old table (which could also do custom rendering, but only rendered in Firefox — the new one is cross browser) . It’s nifty stuff. We’ll be launching the beta of Southern Fried Tech soon and you guys can check it out (it’s used extensively through out the site).
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