You can certainly have a scrollbar in a JavaScript-based data grid. What's more, the scrollbar actually matches in behavior with the one you use to scroll the page -- it's the same component. So that provides a more consistent experience.
Some of the reasons I know that people avoid using Flash: 1. It tends to "eat" focus. (i.e. you can never tab out of a Flash object) 2. It doesn't obey the user's preferences with respect to font size and color 3. It's too large -- a Flex application just for a DataGrid would be 200+ KB 4. Some users don't have Flash Player, for whatever reasons 5. They don't have Flash/Flex development skills on the team Of course, there will be cases where it's desirable to use a Flex application embedded in the web page just to show a bunch of tabular data. I'm sure they're out there. Last I remember, the Flex Developer Center on the Adobe site used to have that. Manish On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:15 AM, wubac1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Manish, > > The javascript-based data grid components don't compare from a usability > standpoint (i.e. pagination by button vs. scroll bar). The Google Reader > makes an interesting attempt at a scrollable data grid, but it's still not > even close (it lets you scroll a small amount and then hangs for additional > loading). So, while I understand the options exist in javascript, why choose > them when Flex provides better usability? Is it simply a "religious" issue > with regard to web design? > > --- In [email protected], Manish Jethani <manish.jeth...@...> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM, wubac1 <wub...@...> wrote: >> > Many websites embed Flash/Flex applications for charts, but I don't see >> > embedding for DataGrid. Given that DataGrid has many usability advantages >> > over HTML-based pagination (my assumption), why is it not used for tables >> > in javascript-based websites? If I am overlooking any major examples, >> > please provide a link. >> >> There are many Ajax-based data grid components out there, and they >> tend to be the natural choice (same environment). Some of the new >> websites are also using HTML Canvas for charting -- Wikirank, for >> example -- so you'll see fewer and fewer sites using Flash just for >> charts as time goes by. >> >> Manish >> >> -- >> Manish Jethani >> www.manishjethani.com >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links > > > >
