Confessions of a Keytarist

Warning: rant ahead!

I’m now the sole developer working on arguably one of the largest projects for our company, and things are going well. However, I keep falling into traps and pitfalls created by one of the projects last programmers.

One of his “favourite” tricks seems to be creating a business layer method that populates an object based on data retrieved from a database. Nothing odd there.. but it’s when you have the need to re-use one of his functions that you end up falling right into his carefully seeded trap!

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Whilst working on a work project, I needed to create a HTML table that would contain possibly hundreds of rows. The table was followed by a set of buttons that were required to remain on screen at all times (for a set resolution).

So I knew I needed to make the table scrollable, which isn’t exactly a hard task.
However, the top row of the table contained the column headers, which also needed to remain on screen at all times.
Achieving this is a very simple task in tools such as Microsoft Excel, but it wasn’t so straight forward for the web.

After playing around with several examples, all with varying degrees of success, I managed to piece it all together into a final version, which works on IE v6, v7 & v8, as well as Firefox v2 & v3 and even Opera!

(Oh, and it’s XHTML and CSS3 compliant too!)

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