- The fix here is to set the box sizing for the table and its cells to
be content-box sizing to allow the column width calculations to occur
correctly - 17932
Many JS minifiers use the convention that comments starting with '/*!'
are preserverd as license comments. To help build tools do this easily
with DataTables, it should use this convention. This ensures the
license comment is preserved when using these tools.
From https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor/blob/master/README.md
C-style comments starting with /*! are preserved. This is useful with
comments containing copyright/license information.
From https://github.com/yui/yuglify
We need to support the /*! license comment blocks when minifying, so
we added a preprocessor to the code to pull them from the source, then
place them back when the minification is complete.
- Packagist requires that packages use only lowercase letters in their
name (although the composer spec says nothing about this), so in order
to make DataTables usable with packagist we need to change the name
slightly.
display
- In the examples we want to show the following information to help
developers to get to grips with DataTables more readily:
- Init javascript code
- HTML used for the table
- Additional CSS used
- Ajax loaded data
- List of the libraries files loaded in the example
- All but the last point is complete, a bit of styling and information
text.
option
- By passing in no parameters to the search API methods we can get the
current search value - for example:
$('#example').DataTable().search();
- This is to round of the API as the order() method already has a get
option as to the paging information
- Variables and functions which are to be private in DataTables, but
available across all files have a single leading underscore.
- Variables and functions which are to be private in a single file have
two underscores (but no self executing function to restrict scope as
that will just take extra space).
- Externally exposed functions and JSHint globals list updated
- When working with plug-ins such as TableTools, there is no clearly
defined way at the moment to get at the plug-in instance, with each
doing it its own way (TableTools as a static function, while Scroller
attaches itself to the settings object and KeyTable is its own
intialiser, amoung others...) so I'm introducing these methods to
unify this.
- plugin() is used by DataTables users to get their plugin instance, for
example `table.plugin('tabletools')` would get the TableTools
instance allowing full access to its API.
- plugin.register() and plugin.deregister() are called by the plug-ins
when they attach themselves to a DataTable. The 'extras' will all need
to be updated to use this new method.
- Some plug-ins would benefit from be able to automatically initialise
when a DataTables is constructed, to this end, a construct for static
events is added here, with the static function $.fn.dataTable.on()
listening for events. Currently only the `construct` method is
available, although others could potentially be added in future if
they are useful. As such, the code driving it is intentionally simple
for this cas,e but the API abstract enough to allow future expansion.
- There is no `off()` method, as I'm not sure it would be that useful.
Could be added in future if needed!
- The server-side processing parameters used by DataTables 1.9 are very
ugly, and rather arkward to work with, so in keeping with the
camcelCase approach of 1.10 and its general monderisation, when using
the `ajax` option to set the ajax url for data, DataTables server-side
processing will now use a much more modern method of telling the
server what data is required - specifically using arrays and objects
in neatly formatted data.
- The old 1.9 method is invoked if sAjaxSource is used to set the ajax
url, or if $.fn.dataTable.ext.legacy.ajax is set to true. As such,
this change should be fully backwards compatible since `ajax` is a new
option in 1.10.
- This new ability adds 334 bytes to the min file, primarily, because
the old method is retained (using just the new method would actually
reduce the size slightly).
- The _fnCalculateColumnWidths is probably the oldest function in
DataTables which has mostly reamined as it was 5 years ago! However,
its time to trim it down a bit and optimise now. This rewrite has all
the same actions, but results in a minified file which is about 700
bytes smaller than before.
- The bAutoCss parameter is not one that I've ever actually seen used,
so I've dropped it out here to reduce complexity. It was only useful
for making the scrollbars always visible on the table, which can just
as easily be done with `div.dataTables_scrollBody { overflow: scroll
!important }` since that will take a heigher priority that the
DataTables appled style.
- The moster _fnFeatureHtmlTable and _fnScrollDraw functions have been
refactors, saving around 1.5K in size (in the minified file)
- The infinite scrolling feature of DataTables is inadequate as a
solution for the problem it is trying to solve as it introduces a
number of compatiblity issues with the rest of the API parimarily
due to the fact that it "tricks" the rest of DataTables into drawing
just a small proportion of the table, leaving the elements which are
currently in place. This means that DataTables doesn't realise that
the table has additional rows at the top of the table, thus breaking
numerous interactions with the API and confusing developers. As such,
its a poor feature that is just taking up space and could be done much
better externally.
- I will write an infinite loading feature for DataTables in future for
users that do what to use this ability - there is nothing stopping a
simple scroll event being attached to the scrolling element and
calling the rows.add() function. This is exactly what the new plug-in
will do.
- Scroller is a much better solution for defined length tables.
- In keeping with the camelCase name changes for DataTables 1.10, the
default Ajax data source object property name has been updated from
`aaData` to just `data`. Note that this is a fulyl backwards
compatible change - if aaData is present in the data, it will be used.
<input> controls used by DataTables for length change and filtering
respectively.
- Bootstrap 3 requires a styling class be set directly on the element,
so in order to correctly support Bootstrap 3, which we want to do, we
need to have the ability to set these classes. This commit adds that
ability
- Because of the decoupling of the filtering and sorting, the filtering
was missing that the indexes of the displayed data will have changed
after a sort. So need to do a full filter when just sorted
styling
- Note that I've included the bootstrap and Foundation integration files
in the resources folder. In future these files will be on the CDN, but
that isn't up and running yet...
- scrollX was often the source of frustration when setting it to
anything other than "100%", which is was in the demos and
documentation but it makes it easy to see that you could set it to be
50% or anything else. That usually broke the developer's layout. So
now you can just use scrollX: true, to enable horizontal scrolling.
The demos have been updated for this.
- A numebr of support requests are about why the layout immediately
after a DataTable looks wrong, and its usually because of the floats
used by info / paging, so we self clear the wrapper around the
DataTable controls
- Updating the build process to introduce the example builder to convert
the XML example files into HTML files. This process is performed for a
number of reasons:
- Much more maintainable - links automatically updated
- Add / remove examples easier
- Modify page styling easier
- Examples can be directly integrated into web-site since they are
transformed by template
- Common data sharing
- Note that the work on the new example build process is not complete in
this commit, there are still a few things to do! css, media paths and
completing the templates.
With the former package name being DataTables/DataTables it is not possible to add this library to [packagist](http://packagist.org) which makes this file useless in it's current state.
Please note the [error message](http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1079/ywi9.png) when trying to [submit the package](https://packagist.org/packages/submit) to packagist.
"The package name DataTables/DataTables is invalid, it should not contain uppercase characters. We suggest using data-tables/data-tables instead."
- Rather than creating a new JSON object from the XHR, use the one that
was returned by the server. This is useful if you manipulate the data
since you want to just keep using the same object.
