On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > By this I mean as the user scrolls up and down, the model is asked for more > rows and the rows above a paged out. This allows the user to scroll around > a large data set with no delay. The amount of rows buffered above and below > the Viewport should be configurable. > > Would this be possible. One thing our users despise is paging grids > tables. This Viewport is what they want and is more natural. >
Speaking only as a user and not one involved with the development of this feature, I find that is true only to a certain point -- if the dataset is large enough that small scrolling movements move large distances, a paging table (with some sort of search) is much preferred over an infinite scroll approach. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
