OS-Native table widget

[calande]

It is feasable to create a table in Javascript to list information, to resize columns and to sort it without reloading the page, with much code and bloat (sluggish), but if I could create a table like this easily in HTML with no Javascript, and with the table headers with the same look & feel as the OS I'm using that would be great:



We could use very similar markup as the <table>, <th>, <tr>, and <td> tags, just make it more dynamic:

• Resizable columns
• Sortable columns
• OS-native header look and feel
• Append data preview with three dots when the data doesn't fit the cell (kind of like "overflow: hidden")

We could for instance use this feature in webmail applications's lists of messages to make them more usable, faster, and easier to code (UI).
What do you think?

[anne]

The idea is that <datagrid> addresses this usecase. Currently that section might be a bit hard to grasp though given that there's no tutorial yet (or implementation to play with).