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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] 96 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Oh, that's an excellent way to start if you're building a database in CSS.

[–] [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?

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