[Phpmyadmin-devel] Column reordering

[Tyron Madlener]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Aris Feryanto <aris_feryanto at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- 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.
>>
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>
> 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).
>

Performance might be an issue indeed.

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