Agreed, and also failed to promote my project a few times on HN. In January I've decided to take a different route and promote on /r/javascript instead and all of a sudden it got bumped to number 1. Got picked up by tbranyen and eventually jashkenas.
Oh, BTW, my Backbone-based grid clocks in only 6.2K minified and gzipped :) Much better documentation too. No column resizing and reordering at the moment, but working on it for the next version :P
That's good advice. I'll probably give Reddit a shot at some point.
I am pretty jealous of your API docs for backgrid. What do you use to generate that? Also, my 17kb quote is minifed but not gzipped. ATable comes out to 5.1kb gzipped. That being said, 6.2kb is pretty damn impressive considering some of the extra functionality that backgrid has.
Ah thanks for clarifying. I couldn't find a minified version of aTable on your Github repo so I couldn't double check.
A number of people have asked me what I used to generate the documentation. The truth is I didn't use any. I just hand-coded the whole HTML doc in Emacs using zencoding-mode. Styled it with bootstrap. The header serif font is a Mac font called Hoefler Text. The code editor is codemirror. That's it. The reason I do this is because I find pretty much all the documentation generators out there very lacking in layout controls. I could use Sphinx but I'll have to end up customizing the hell out of the default themes anyway. Might as well do it the basic way.
Totally agree about the existing doc generators.
Btw- I didn't start creating aTable because of a perceived shortcoming of Backgrid. If Backgrid existed a month or so earlier, I probably would have just tried to contibute. By the time I knew about Backgrid, though, I already had a mostly-working codebase and didn't want to throw it away.
Oh, BTW, my Backbone-based grid clocks in only 6.2K minified and gzipped :) Much better documentation too. No column resizing and reordering at the moment, but working on it for the next version :P
http://backgridjs.com/