[jQuery] Proof of concept: Animated data grid/table jquery plugin with sorting and pagination and somewhat lightweight

[jQuery] Proof of concept: Animated data grid/table jquery plugin with sorting and pagination and somewhat lightweight


My proof of concept
http://www.overset.com/2008/08/30/animated-sortable-datagrid-jquery-plugin-jtps/
I haven't yet seen html scrolling animation like this non-flash or
flex. This is essentially an unreleased jquery plugin that you can
attach to an already created table that will allow for sorting and
pagination. The animation is sensitive to the page delta, i.e. it will
scroll faster if you go from page 1 to 5 than from page 1 to 2. The
core of the animation is really a queued style.display: ( 'none' ||
'' ) and given the delay by hijacking the .animate() functionality as
many have used in the past. It feels somewhat dirty but is easier than
programming another whole setTimeout management layer for this.
I put a bit of work on coding an intelligent sort that is similar to
php's old natural sort (STRING_SORT) and is faster (as of some initial
testing) than other implementations I've seen.
I'm going to re-vamp the re-drawing of the table rows to make this
faster considering how slow it currently is.. but the animation of the
pagination is something I wanted to throw out there for some feedback.
It's currently floating around 10KB un-minified and well commented
Cheers