Hi,
I have a table I am populating with data from a DB, and have it
sortable on the client side. When the table exceeds around 300 rows,
I start running into problems with rendering and sorting it. I
started out using Prototype to help with the sorting, but it appears
that this results in a lot of calls to _getElementsByXPath, which are
taking up a large percentage of the rendering time. I believe this
call is occurring as the DOM is being parsed.
What is the general/most accepted manner of dealing with large data
sets (I am expecting some to grow into the thousands) in a table so
that it can be sorted client side? I am thinking of building a
javascript (JSON) object containing the data, and sorting based on
this. Anybody have any thoughts on this approach, or any suggestions
for other ways to approach this?
Thanks,
Simon