On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Joshua Cranmer š§ <pidgeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I nominally agree with this sentiment, but there are a few caveats: > 1. nsITreeView and <xul:tree> exist and are usable in Mozilla code today. > No HTML-based alternative to these are so easily usable. > 2. The main rationale for this feature (bug 213945, although I doubt the > approach currently taken in bug 441414 is actually usable for that anyways) > involves a tree view that is currently performance-sensitive and comprises > 13,446 lines of C++ code, so it can't easily move to JS. Which means some > sort of XPIDL API is going to be necessary anyways, and that API would > probably look vaguely similar to nsITreeView. > I'm not proposing migrating the current tree code to HTML+JS. > 3. I've never done a lot of UI coding myself, so I don't know if my > recollection is correct anymore or even if it ever was, but I recall > hearing that XUL and HTML didn't get together terribly well. > > So if we had an HTML tree implementation that: > a) supported lazy generation of row data > b) supported column pickers, rearrangeable columns, etc. > c) supported CSS queries similar to what <xul:tree> does already, > d) could be used or made usable from C++ without too much effort > e) already existed and were generally maintained in toolkit/ > f) were properly accessible > g) had any other compatibility features I've neglected > > I would happily agree with you. But without those, it does feel a little > bit like you're holding hostage real improvements on the basis that a > better solution theoretically exists. > Nope. Rob -- oIo otoeololo oyooouo otohoaoto oaonoyooonoeo owohooo oioso oaonogoroyo owoiotoho oao oboroootohoeoro oooro osoiosotoeoro owoiololo oboeo osouobojoeocoto otooo ojouodogomoeonoto.o oAogoaoiono,o oaonoyooonoeo owohooo osoaoyoso otooo oao oboroootohoeoro oooro osoiosotoeoro,o oāoRoaocoao,oāo oioso oaonosowoeoroaoboloeo otooo otohoeo ocooouoroto.o oAonodo oaonoyooonoeo owohooo osoaoyoso,o oāoYooouo ofooooolo!oāo owoiololo oboeo oiono odoaonogoeoro ooofo otohoeo ofoioroeo ooofo ohoeololo. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
