eylenburg
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5 months ago Hi, thank you for your kind words first of all!
I would like to implement this and other features. I was thinking of:
- Filtering for rows and columns
- Making the first column sticky (like the header row is now) when you scroll, unless the screen/browser width is too little and the first column would take up the whole width. (At the moment the tables should display without horizontal scrolling if you have a maximized browser window on a Full HD screen with 100% scaling.)
For second, I think I know how to do it (with CSS sticky) but I haven't got round to do it. As for the first, this is - as you say - only done for the browser comparison (hide columns) and the cloud/email comparison (remove rows). I think it would be nice to have full flexibility here but to be honest I'm not sure what's the easiest and most elegant way of solving it. Ideally I would want to do it just with CSS and no Javascript.
I'll leave this open in the hopes of a pull request from a kind stranger and as a reminder to myself.
JslinkyJ
I had been unable to find a raw data driven source for tabular comparisons. So this is a fine find indeed, I am still not sure exactly how I managed to come by it, but I am glad I did. I had to trudge through far too many thinly veiled sales pitch websites that promise this sort of content and then pull a bait and switch with their product. If you want to make a timeline of the evolution of this practice, then be my guest. Too many naive people nowadays are sourcing their technical information like mice to corporate cheese.
As a bit of a question/feedback: For your generated tables, would you consider adding a feature to manually collapse specific columns and rows? Your preset filters are useful, but to more easily digest visual comparison experience, I really do need to remove some excess information based on my interests. If there is a solution process I can follow, then please let me know.
PS: I know that an easier solution would be to black out entire columns and rows, but I have not seen you fully do this, which is good. You have preset filters that eliminate rows and columns completely or black them out, but they are still only a selection of presets.
For someone appreciative of your effort due to its objective presentation of raw data, I understandably am drawn to having more control over how the data is displayed. My goal is to get a subset of your tables into a condensed enough size that I can more easily look between examples across variables. Otherwise it is a bit too much scrolling and jumping to be maximally effective, at least in my opinion.
Lastly, it is rare that I find information displayed this way nowadays. What is your inspiration?