Not much fun to use this DataTables
Not much fun to use this DataTables
dlazar
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Using stock downloaded build code and simplest of examples, this code bombs. Not sure how people use this without going a little batty. Won't be paying $200... oh well...
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DataTables is MIT licensed - you don't have to pay anything to use it. Only the Editor component is commercial.
If you have a link to the page you are having problems with, or at least a description of the issue, I'd be happy to take a look.
Allan
i guess he is talking about costs for advanced support, since he can't figure it out on himself.
datatables is one of the better things you get for free around the internet. but it can be difficult to get into, especially if you are new to javascript/jquery in general. if you just throw it at your website and expect a working result, you will likely be disappointed.
i am coming from old school html/php, with almost no practical experience around javascript or even jquery, and still managed to build a rather complicated datatables setup within a few days.
it's a hell of trial and error, but with a healthy bit of common sense and patience, you will get it to work.
Unfortunately, after spending 30 odd years of patiently writing code, my patience with the hell of trial and error is minimal. My success with DataTables alone was quickly achieved, however adding in the Editing aspect was where failures reared their ugly heads. As mentioned, straight out the bible examples deployed kicked off weird i18n errors, and the only support forum issue was from 2014, clearly not a source of salvation. When the simple deployment of examples fails, I feel out of place firing up a debugger on the many thousands of lines of code developed by others in those situations.
@dlazar - perhaps you would be willing to describe the problems you were having with the i18n aspect so I can try to help resolve them. If you could provide a link to the page you are working on that would greatly help my ability to resolve the issue - if not, then showing the code that you are using would be the starting point.
Without knowing what the issue is, I'm not able to offer much help :-)
Allan