[Phpmyadmin-devel] Column reordering

[Aris Feryanto]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Aris Feryanto <aris_feryanto at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>>  On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Aris Feryanto 
> <aris_feryanto at yahoo.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>   From: Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>
>>>>> 
>>>>>   On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Marc Delisle 
> <marc at infomarc.info>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    I am also wondering how to "publicize" these 
> t wo new
>>>  features
>>>>>   (how to
>>>>>>    make  more apparent that these are available).
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Ideas:
>>>>>   - A dragging indicator like gmail emails have on their left 
> end
>>>>>   - A border around each column that fades in and out when 
> hovering over
>>>>>   - When pma db is available, a speech bubble pointing at the 
> columns
>>>>>   explaining the new feature (which appears only one time)
>>>>>   - 'Tip of the day' or 'Did you know?' - Box on 
> the pma
>>>  main
>>>>>   window
>>>> 
>>>>   Good ideas. Another idea: how about small popup balloon when 
> hovering table
>>>  header?
>>>>   (like in http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/)
>>> 
>>>  Indeed, that's a good idea.
>>>  On that apple site, it looks nice how that shadow around the element
>>>  appears while dragging. Maybe that's possible for the column 
> dragging
>>>  too?
>> 
>>  This is rather complicated. I checked the site and found that every columns 
> is built in its own div, so it's easy to animate one column at once. While, 
> in phpMyAdmin browse-mode, what we have is a <table> structure.
>> 
> 
> Oh I was actually referring to the floating column header alone. But
> yea, floating the whole column would look nicer. It shouldn't be so
> hard though. It would only need to clone that one column into the
> floated element and afterwards discard it when dropped, i think.
> 


Oh. I see. I thought that you said about the whole column.
Yes, I agree it would make the column header prettier.

And about the whole column, I'm also thinking about performance issue, especially when we have lots of rows to clone (e.g. when we press "Show all" button in a huge table) or the column contains a lot of transformed data (e.g. image).


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Aris Feryanto