Re: [galaxy-dev] Display of tabular data in Galaxy

On 10/18/2010 01:02 PM, Peter wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've noticed in the right hand column for tabular data Galaxy shows > the first few lines with a nice column based layout. Looking at the > source, you actually define an HTML table for this. > > However, on the main central column, when viewing a tabular dataset > (by clicking on the eye icon from an entry in the right hand column), > the data is shown as raw text. As long as the data in each column is > about the same length, this works OK. However, if you have variable > length fields then the columns do not line up. > > It would be nice if the main display showed the data respecting the > columns. Has this been considered? My guess is that doing this was > rejected due to the computational load to reformat it, and the network > load to send the marked up data. > > (I did try and search the mailing list archives but didn't find any > discussion of this) > > Regards, > > Peter Actually, I prefer the raw text. If I upload a tab-del. file or if my tool creates a tab-del (or even a csv) file, I wanna see the file as it is and not some fancy excel like display. For those cases, where we need a nice looking display, I create an html file as the final result page.