Show HN: Spreadsheets in the browser with Box, Dropbox support

  • It suffers from the same defect all html spreadsheets do (even google docs): if you zoom/resize the screen, row/col alignment breaks.

    Unbelievable how in this decade it is still almost impossible to make a table work like a spreadsheet in html. How hard would it be to just enforce a couple of css properties in tables to make them behave? Like:

        tbody {overflow:auto;}
    
    That would be a great start. Then:

        thead,tfoot{position:fixed;}
        tbody td:first-child{position:fixed}
    
    That'd be all, add a contentEditable attribute and that's it. Everything else is just a matter of coding tricks to format cells and formulas.

    Hello Whatwg, you listening? I know w3c is been deaf for long, that's why I am asking you. Hixie alive? Earth is calling.

    * Here is a basic implementation using box model and display:-webkit-box; (chrome/safari in OSX only) http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/spreadsheetcalc.html

  • Major props to my friend David for making this. It's a mashup of Handsontable (https://github.com/warpech/jquery-handsontable) and Filepicker.io (https://www.filepicker.io/)

  • That's a big editable table, not a spreadsheet. But as an editable table, it's nice.

  • I will say good start but not useful though. Except entering numbers I couldn't do any thing. One good thing is it is very light. The reason people use excel because you can do lot more than just entering numbers.

  • Why all the negativity?

    I personally think the ability to open and save "cloud" spreadsheets was nicely done.

  • Is this meant to be a Google Docs/Drive competitor?