unfortunately I have to agree with the initial poster as to the
frustration with lack of documentation. something as straight forward
as using an embedded json object vs ajax is far from obvious, and many
questions do not get answered in this forum. This is not a fault of
the creator, or a fault of anyone. Now I do not agree with the way he
expressed his frustration.
As for my issue (which will hopefully get triggered by a search for
embedded json object) I will probably build my grid from json using my
own code, then use the simple $('selector').flexigrid() method to turn
it into a grid.