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Spreadsheet Dojo Widget

Posted At : September 26, 2006 9:30 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
Related Categories: ajax,JS/DHTML

Marius Hanganu released a Spreadsheet Widget written in Dojo... it is pretty impressive, and pretty heavy at the same time. Dojo is incredibly powerful, but this widget max'ed out my CPU for about 30 seconds... not so impressive. You can view the demo here. If your browser does not respond just have patience... I know, I know, but it's still in beta, has some bugs, and hopefully will not have these performance issues once it hits 1.0.

Here's a list of features from the author's site.

Features

Based on Toolbar and TabContainer widgets
Keyboard cell navigation
Column, row resizing
Cell, column and row selection
Cell formatting (font, font size, bold, italic, underline, color, background color)
Sheet management (rename, delete, new)
Functions (22 math functions, 6 string functions)

Status

This widget is definitely not final and has several bugs
Tested with Firefox and IE only
On IE runs slower than Firefox
If it would be released as an independent piece of software it would be labelled as 0.7 version

Goals for "1.0" version:

Fix all remaining bugs related to column, row resizing and selection
Support cell presentation format (dates could be displayed as mm-dd-yyyy, numbers as xx.xx, etc)
Support for date functions
Post spreadsheet data in JSON format to be saved serverside
Improve validation

posted on September 26, 2006 at 9:30 PM by Rob Gonda