Responsive Tables

[loganfranken]

We will need to research and choose the best option(s) for implementing responsive tables (or, alternatively, make the decision not to support them in the framework).

As @ebollens notes in #44, this is an issue we should wait to discuss since there is a lot of other work that could be done at the moment (prototyping, basic designs, etc.).

[loganfranken]

Created a wiki page for this research:
https://github.com/ucla/WebBlocks/wiki/Research:-Responsive-Tables

[ebollens]

Nice summary! My thoughts are now in the wiki.

[loganfranken]

Whoops, sorry @ebollens, I should have marked that it was a work-in-progress. I think the list is finished now (although it's more or less just Chris Coyier's awesome round-up with some extra examples and implementation details). Your suggestions still hold true, though; notable additions you might want to check out are the second "Pinned Column" example (flipped table) and the new "Hide Columns" category.

Moving this into the next milestone although I imagine we'll be circling in on an implementation choice soon.

[loganfranken]

Added some additional thoughts on the wiki:
https://github.com/ucla/WebBlocks/wiki/Research:-Responsive-Tables

@ebollens @atsengucla @ccheung

Maybe we could settle on an implementation approach during tomorrow's discussion?

[loganfranken]

Moving to 0.1.05

[ebollens]

Agreed on settling on an implementation approach during tomorrow's meeting.

[loganfranken]

Based on today's meeting, we will implement this entity as follows:

• Build with standard table markup
• Provide Linearized Table option as extension
• Provide Scrollable Table option (w/ option for pinning table header) as extension

Hiding Columns option (w/ menu for re-enabling hidden columns) will be tabled ( har har ) for now. This was a research ticket, so I'm going to close it and open tickets for the actual entity development.

[loganfranken]

Added information about a relatively new responsive table concept ("FooTable"): https://github.com/ucla/WebBlocks/wiki/Research:-Responsive-Tables Probably not something we'll consider first-pass, but it's an interesting concept nonetheless