Viewing a collection of data in tabular or list form is one of the central components of many applications. We are working on a new design to fulfill the need for a grid to quickly navigate sets of data with familiar controls for productive user interaction in the new world of mobile, lightweight applications. The Dojo DataGrid has long provided a comprehensive grid for Dojo users, but years of Dojo evolution have reached their limit with this component. What was originally a stand-alone, full-featured grid has been migrated to using Dojo modules, asynchronous dojo.data stores, and more. Consequently the DataGrid is suboptimal and difficult to customize and extend. The time has come for a fresh start on the grid. We have been collaborating with IBM on a new grid, and I wanted to share some of the design goals of our development before actually demonstrating the new grid.

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