I've created a custom component that is very similar to the dataTable component.
Suppose you have a dataTable of states and their 2-letter abbreviations: AL ALABAMA AK ALASKA AZ ARIZONA AR ARKANSAS CA CALIFORNIA CO COLORADO CT CONNECTICUT ...
This will quickly consume several screens of data and the user ends up scrolling like crazy. With my new component NewspaperTable, you specify a number of newspaper columns and the table is "wrapped" so that each column is repeated multiple times on each row. The name newspaper comes from the idea of 'balanced columns' like you would find in a newspaper:
AL ALABAMA DE DELAWARE IA IOWA AK ALASKA FL FLORIDA KS KANSAS AZ ARIZONA GA GEORGIA KY KENTUCKY AR ARKANSAS HI HAWAII LA LOUISIANA CA CALIFORNIA ID IDAHO ME MAINE CO COLORADO IL ILLINOIS MD MARYLAND CT CONNECTICUT IN INDIANA MA MASSACHUSETTS
The end result works very well in my application. I have used all sorts of components in this table and they all work perfectly.
I would like to share this component with the MyFaces project.
Can somebody please tell me where I can contribute this code?
It seems like everything is a little crazy due to the migration to Apache Incubator!
Cheers, Jesse
