Re: FN-FORUM: Ajax drag n drop

date posted 18th October 2007 01:04

I'd much recommend jquery (www.jquery.com) over script.aculo.us. The
latter is a bit clunky, and it's not a well refined. There's a really
good interface implementation which sits on top of jquery called
Interface (shock, horror!) which you can find at
http://interface.eyecon.ro/. There's also mootools, which has the
best accordion control implementation I've seen to date.

On 17 Oct 2007 18:28:43 -0000, Dan Jeffrey [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Terry,
>
> I'd recommend reading up thoroughly on the basics of the xmlhttprequest
> API before you dive into Ajax technologies / techniques; Infact I'd
> almost insist that you do for your own benefit as from experience you'll
> probably save several hundreds of hours of time when you encounter
> things that make you think "Huh?".
>
> Having personally landed myself in a situation where I was lacking the
> fundamental understanding of how requests and responses worked when I
> jumped into using frameworks like prototype several years ago (which, at
> the time was _very very_ much a *prototype* framework!).
>
> Whether or not you decide to read up on that first though, if you're
> looking to educate yourself on various Ajax techniques I'd recommend
> starting with a mature framework such as prototype or j-query as you'll
> find it beneficial to have more documentation available to you whilst
> trying to learn the ways of the ole' household cleaner.
>
> Check out scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/) and some of the
> examples (http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Demos).
>
> The sortable elements [drag and drop] is identical to what you just
> linked to, see it here -
> (http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/sortable_elements)
>
>
> If anyone disagrees / has constructive comments or has used a different
> approach please let me know as I would love to hear others opinions :-)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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