Ext GridView 3 is on SmashingMagazine.com

[manugoel2003]

Hi all,

I just stumbled on an article on SmashingMagazine.com. The article was about different DHTML data grids available in the market and guess who stole the show.... our very own GridView 3..... Have a look at the article

Article (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/30/tables-and-data-grids-with-ajax-dhtml-javascript)

Hey congrats ExtJs Team

[Animal]

I can't help feeling the litte summary sells it short.

It's much more than "with Expander Rows, Collapse and Force Fit, Framed with Checkbox Selection and Horizontal Scrolling"

What about complete MVC separation with the Model (The Store object) interacting with a server to provide easy pagination with a built in PagingToolbar?

Rows drawing their data from record objects in the Model who's fields may be addressed by name, and used for Form population, and updating the query back to the server?

I think Ext has much more going for it than those other tables.

Jack, perhaps you should offer them a quick summary of what differentiates Ext Grid from the rest. I don't reall want to stick my oar in there!

[jack.slocum]

That's sweet we need more review lists like that. Somehow, we still don't make many "Ajax Framework" top 10 lists. :(

[manugoel2003]

I guess all the details need not be there or else it wont feel a fair comparison at all :).... after all there are only 7 wonders in this world..... it is just a list compiled by someone and they included Ext grid in it.... it is by no means a portrayal of Ext's capabilities, so just relax.... and as Jack said, at this stage such review lists are good... and I am sure Ext will definitely make much more news in the coming future.....

One thing Jack, can we technically call Ext an AJAX framework??.... I mean Ext uses YUI or Prototype or etc etc as a base lib, or u can say provides compatibility with them or whatever.... isn't it time that you roll out a complete all-in-one Ext, in addition to the 3-lib-supporting version of today..... no need for any adapters or anything..... so if anyone wants to use Ext with Prototype he can do so..... and someone else for whom all this doesn't really matter and would rather go in for a simpler implementation can go for the all-in-one version.... 1 JS file and its all there.... not to mention that the performance of the all-in-one would be better, or at least I hope so ;)

Just a thought

[jack.slocum]

One thing Jack, can we technically call Ext an AJAX framework??.... I mean Ext uses YUI or Prototype or etc etc as a base lib, or u can say provides compatibility with them or whatever.... isn't it time that you roll out a complete all-in-one Ext, in addition to the 3-lib-supporting version of today..... no need for any adapters or anything..... so if anyone wants to use Ext with Prototype he can do so..... and someone else for whom all this doesn't really matter and would rather go in for a simpler implementation can go for the all-in-one version.... 1 JS file and its all there.... not to mention that the performance of the all-in-one would be better, or at least I hope so ;)

Just a thought

That's already in SVN. ext-base.js in /experimental. It will be in 1.1. It reuses quite a bit of code from YUI at this point although much of it was edited to fit Ext. Over time we will be changing more as I see a lot of room for improvements.

ext-base.js also weighs in at 38kb compressed vs 59kb yui-utilities.js+yui-bridge.js and removes an entire layer of function calls.

It is set up as a pseudo adapter at this point. You would include ext-base.js before ext-all.js.

:D

[manugoel2003]

thats just wonderful... how do u manage to be a step ahead, always :) .... gr8 work

[hendra1]

Hello everbody... i would like to ask, how to use grid with checkbox (example at smashing magazine). i had copy the grid3.js and make grid.html
but when i try to run it on my localhost.. it won't work...
does anybody.. can help me to solve my problem..
thanks before....

:)

[brian.moeskau]

Grid3 is not yet available in the current version of Ext (1.0.1a stable, or 1.1 beta). The example linked to by the article is a preview of version 2.0 functionality which is only available to those with paid support subscriptions. So you can either purchase a support agreement to get SVN access (http://extjs.com/ext-store) or otherwise wait until 2.0 is publicly available (no date for that yet). Until then, your example will not work.