randomcoding/PartsDbWebApp — Issue #23: All tabular displays should be height limited
Author: randomcoder
Created: 2011-12-17 15:02:41+00:00
State: open

To prevent large volumes of information from creating vast pages that simply scroll down forever, tabular displays should be limited in height. Either by limiting the number of results that are displayed (i.e. a paging system) or by displaying the results within a viewport that has scroll bars if there is too much vertical content.

Paging is good because there is no scrolling, but requires a simple means to jump large numbers of pages (e.g. to get to Customers beginning with Q). A viewport is simpler as we only need to render all the information once and then let the browser show it. It is also a quicker to jump to particular entries by scrolling (unless there are loads and loads and loads of them).

I'm not sure about the 'best' way for this.