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Re:37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you just re... by gruseom on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @11:06PM (#3376318)
just look at google spreadsheets and you'll see how sub-optimal it is.

How is it sub-optimal?

One of my jobs is to make a UI that gets this right, so I'd appreciate hearing what you (or anybody) find deficient in the way online spreadsheets do this.

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Re:37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you just re... by pinaceae on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @03:31AM (#3376818)
excel is the reference. it is so ridiculously optimized, it is not even funny.

outside of spreadsheets, take the itunes simple list view as a baseline. the 'simple' things are important. double-clicking the column border resizes the column to fit the longest text, etc.

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