title: View part of a web application - what technology for a pretty intensive grid view?
body: <p>I'm about to have to write a web page/app that will serve the agenda for circa 100 people on a page. One line per person, one column per day with 3 clickable zones in each cell.</p>
  
  <p>In HTML, the page is way complex for the browser to load quick and there is no possibility to click on a border between 2 cells to for example split an event that spreads among several cells.</p>
  
  <p>So I search an not too overkilling technology to render this kind of view. I begun with a PHP generated HTML page but the number of elements in the page make the mouse move jerky.</p>
  
  <p>Moving to JAVA would give me better performances regarding the reuse of the generator of the view but it will still be an HTML page.</p>
  
  <p>So, here is my question: do you think that going forward with JAVA and its graphical capability is the simple solution or is Flash a better option for this part of a Web App? I'm afraid of the code I'll have to write in JAVA to handle the GUI presentation as well as the events generated by the 1000's cells plus borders of the page. In Flash, the graphical part seems simpler even if the actions handling is still huge.</p>
  
  <p>I'd really like to have your feedback on this one. </p>