clxl
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Comment · 12 years ago
I'm surprised by how many things that aren't that difficult or novel end up on the front page. CSV related projects come to the fore every week.
Comment · 12 years ago
I explored this a bit (based off of the javascript-based http://sheetjs.com/sexql/) but the biggest difficulty is that people use CSVs and excel files in completely different ways for the same general task. In particular, different people set up budget workbooks in very different ways. There are also input problems and invalid files to deal with, so even if you manage to craft a meaningful integration you'd still have to figure out how to determine the structure and fix subtle non-uniformities
Comment · 12 years ago
https://github.com/OfficeDev/Open-XML-SDK/pull/3 suggests that there are issues with use in mono
Comment · 12 years ago
WebSQL is remarkably simple to use, works on the most popular browsers on mobile and desktop, and gives you the power of SQL. In contrast, IME indexed db felt like pulling teeth. The discussions seem to suggest that institutional intransigence by Mozilla pushed the internet back a step. (And yes, SQLite + Emscripten is significantly slower than websql on chrome and iOS Safari)
Comment · 12 years ago
Substack (yes, that substack) discussed this recently:
> a slick web page - this is very often (but not always) a sign of a library that put all of its time into slick marketing but has overly-broad scope and is very likely to become abandoned
http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2378xo/the_best_...