Chapter 10. Data-presentation (cell) widgets
This chapter covers
- Defining data-presentation widgets and data cells
- Creating new cell types
- Using the data-presentation widgets
- Sorting, paging, and retrieving data
- Generating custom-cell table builders
Until this point, we’ve been building applications using regular UI widgets. This is fine for many tasks, but they’re not ideal for rendering large data sets. They’re somewhat heavyweight objects that take time to instantiate, as well as occupy memory. Modern web browsers can generally render a page containing dozens or even hundreds of widgets almost instantaneously, but if we try to draw a data set that’s made up of thousands of widgets, we could well encounter a perceptible delay ...
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