More trees -
March 24, 2005
Coding Horror has some more thoughts on trees, similar to what I was rambling about last night.
It's true that treeviews are appropriate for a few specialized situations. A HR diagram of managers and employees, for example. In my experience, however, trees get horribly abused. The canonical example of unnecessary tree use is in email clients.
Mine is 3 levels deep and twice the height of the treeview pane when fully expanded. I've personally used 3 of the entries in it out of 3 or 4 dozen.
Posted by eric at March 24, 2005 09:29 AM