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The weird thing is that some things are hilariously complicated in web, but simple in native, and vice versa.

What you described is very easy in eg Qt. You have a bunch of classes representing the table and the contained data, a rendering class etc. that you can extend and override methods easily. Relatively easy, maximum control.

OTOH some years ago (still Qt4 times iirc) I was supposed to add a messaging function to an app that should look like mobile messaging, with those speech bubbles. It was a freaking nightmare to get this past a proof of concept that wouldn't have weird glitches and performance issues if you tried to break it. After two weeks of iterations we just embedded a QWebView and got it working better than ever before within two days, although we felt pretty stupid and defeated for basically pulling in a browser just for that.




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