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HTML with Excel (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My sister started a new position that involves HTML. She tried to explain an issue to me, but I'm not a web guy. I told her to send it to me on Monday and she sent this...

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (9 children)

https://css-tricks.com/css-database-queries/

Use a hand-modified-to-ESM version of SQL.js, which is SQLite in JavaScript.

Get a database ready that SQL.js can query.

Build a Houdini PaintWorklet that executes queries in JavaScript and paints the results back to the screen in that -y way that PaintWorklets do.

Pass the query you want to run into the worklet by way of a CSS custom property.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Go straight to jail.

Edit: No idea what's up with the formatting. In my app this shows as step 5 but it seems to render as step 1. Is the Lemmy DB done in CSS?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For me it shows as step 5, in Firefox on Android using web browser interface. Also I can view your source which shows as simply "5. Go...", so it is definitely your app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Weird! Thanks for letting me know. I guess that's what I get for using an app (Sync) that the developer abandons for months at a time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Problem in this case is the specification is vague on what the 'correct' thing to display is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's not the best UI, but you can also view your comment from a standard web browser, just to see how it looks. The advantage to the web browser is that it is always by definition maximally up-to-date:-) - though its baseline functionality may still be lower than an app if the latter is done well.

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