[OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

I am using a library called Flexigrid for the dynamic tables that does a lot of
work for me but also comes with certain restrictions. For instance it doesn't
resize itself based on window size or so. Some of the ideas in this thread would
need me to enhance Flexigrid or even get rid of it and find a different solution.
I am quite happy with the way the tables are presented in Taginfo and I don't
like huge tables that take forever to load. But I can see that others have
other preferences and that there are reasons in favor of other solutions.

Ya'll feel free to try out other ways of presenting the data and we can then
compare the different solutions and maybe find a better one.

Jochen

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 01:39:32PM +0200, Sebastian Klein wrote:
> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:39:32 +0200
> From: Sebastian Klein <bastikln at googlemail.com>
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo
> 
> Jochen Topf wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:54:04PM +0200, Sebastian Klein wrote:
>>> I'd prefer if it would not show a vertical scrollbar. This way you 
>>> could  use the full height of your monitor to read the results. Would 
>>> it be too  much to ask for, like, a maximum of 500 entries per page 
>>> instead of  currently 40?
>>
>> I am not sure I quite understand, what you want. You don't want a scrollbar
>> but still see 500 entries on your screen? How big is your monitor? :-)
>
> My browser can scroll as well. I noted the handle at the bottom of the
> table, where you can increase the size of the table area. Basically I'd
> prefer this to be at maximum all the time.
>
>> I just tried with 500 entries and it will become too slow. At least in Firefox.
>> I get the dreaded warning about a runaway Javascript script.
>>
>> I will add 100 entries as an option which is still reasonably fast.
>
> Thanks! To give you an impression: Wikipedia lists 500 entries per page:
> <http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenStreetMap&limit=500&action=history>
>
> This way you can easily skim the content without the need to click the
> "next" button every 2 seconds.
>
> Another page that is already a little "extreme" because it is so large:
> http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/tags.html
>
> Now I noted the magnifying glass at the lower left, where you can search
> the values. It works quite nice (even for the "name" key) so I think I  
> don't really need that many entries per page. :)
>
> Again, great work, the design is pretty slick...
>
>
> Sebastian
>
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