RIC ROBERTS

Founder and CTO of Swirrl, creators of PublishMyData.
Manchester-based Ruby, Rails & JavaScript freelancer.
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grrid: a Prototype.js based javascript grid

UPDATE (23rd April 2009): grrid.js now has its own website with a demo.

I’ve recently started work on a pure javascript spreadsheet-like grid control called “grrid”, and I’ve put an early version on github here. At the moment it is just a plain old grid, but hopefully you can easily extend the classes in grrid.js for your specific purpose.

With grrid, you can edit the contents of the grid’s cells ‘inline’ (as opposed to pop-ups like in many other grid implementations). It uses Google-maps style scrolling, so that the browser only needs to load the visible contents, and edits are periodically synchronized with the server. Check out the README file in github for documentation.

It’s still very much early days, and there are loads of things on the todo list, so it’s really not ready for production use. However, even in it’s current form it may be of value to some as a starting point for something else, and to that end it’s provided under an MIT-licence.

If you want to contribute, or have any comments, please message me via github or leave a comment here.

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