On 2 July 2010 22:37, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 July 2010 11:22, Alex McAuley <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com> wrote: >> But richard... Font sizes and styles aside... the span with the largest >> amount of text will still be the widest and vice versa!!... >> >> ABCDEFG is still wider than ABCDE no matter the font size!! >> >> Alex Mcauley >> http://www.thevacancymarket.com >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@gmail.com> >> To: <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:57 PM >> Subject: Re: [Proto-Scripty] Sorting some spans. >> >> >>> On 1 July 2010 21:28, Alex McAuley <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> If I was tackling this I would attach a class and id to the spans and >>>> select >>>> them all then find out all of the widths of each span as a number then >>>> sort >>>> them into high to low / low to high then redraw them all .. Prolly not >>>> the >>>> most efficient but it would work. >>>> >>>> If you are using php you could do this without javascript based on strlen >>>> of >>>> the text that sits in the span and sort() / usort() the array then loop >>>> it >>>> ... >>> >>> The widths are dependent upon the font, size and styling being used, >>> not under my control. >>> >>> The size of the display isn't under my control. >>> >>> So all of this is done in realtime on the client. Chrome is WAY the >>> fastest in this and is not really noticeable. >>> >>> IE and FF are quite slow, but I've not yet optimized the code. >>> >>> So once the client has tidied the display, I know how many columns I >>> can have to fill. >>> >>> The example I provided is dummy data and without the JS to do the calc. >>> >>> I'm stuck on the algorithm for sorting the data the way I want. I can >>> see that I need to tag the spans if I want to sort them, but I can't >>> work out what the sort mechanics need to be. >>> > > W is a LOT wider than an i > > > And if they style this in a narrow font, I may get 8 columns. If they > style with additional images (flags, logos, etc.), then the width is > very much different. >
A real example from one of the data sets. Hill Hire ASDA OK, Hill Hire _is_ wider than ASDA, but only just, yet has more than twice the number of characters. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
