New Rico LiveGrid Behavior
Rico added a new LiveGrid Behavior.The LiveGrid behavior takes an ordinary Html table and:
- Connects it live to Ajax data requests
- Creates a scrollbar that becomes the live data navigator for the table.
- Automatically populates the data into the cells.
- Employs data buffering and event compression strategies to improve performance.
The new LiveGrid Behavior demo connect three HTML tables (Web Search, Images Search and Videos Search) to the Yahoo Developer Web Services API with the LiveGrid behavior. With a backend process that given a query will request a search from Yahoo. When the scrollbar is moved, the same backend process is called to retrieve more data. What you see is an alternative to the traditional paging (next/prev) model. With Ajax it is now possible to treat a grid like Google treated maps.
There is a new LiveGrid Tutorial to use it in your in your own application.
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