Added CellRenderers

[svpace]

CellRenderers can be used to define cell level customization to the default Table Renderer. Workaround for issue #707.

[nicolaskruchten]

Thanks for this PR, and apologies for taking so long to respond!

I'm weighing the complexity of merging this PR and maintaining the documentation etc, as compared to recommending that developers do something similar to the Heatmap and Barchart renderers, which basically walk the output of the Table Renderer and tweak the DOM.

[svpace]

I've struggled with this decision myself. I appreciate the separation of concerns of the layered renderers. But in the end, I was frequently writing encoded "hints" to the cells just remove and translate then to the good stuff in the next step. It felt inefficient and it was harder to reason about. Particularly when you start doing "fancy stuff" with aggregators and labels, using plain text to bridge the communication with the renderers was a pita.

I believe that the concept is easy enough to explain, its basically a hook to the last mile of the table renderer and the cell renderers are just functions to map some context to an html element. As soon as I figure out how to make contributions to the wiki I could write a couple of paragraphs explaining the feature.

[nicolaskruchten]

Interesting. Tell me more about the "hints" you were using? Regarding documentation, I should really get around to making a page about rendererOptions :) N

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