SoC 2006: Admin Usability Improvements

Updated the docs and the patches and modules to reflect the recent changes in HEAD.

1. Get a recent HEAD version of Drupal. Install it.
2. Get a recent version of jQuery. (Don't be afraid of its size. Compressed, it's only 15KB) Put it into the misc/ folder.
3. Download the files from CVS.
4. Move the generic.patch to your Drupal root folder and apply it. This patch contains all the split up patches I and others submitted the last couple of weeks. Links to single patches are provided below.

Some of my ideas for the future drupal.js:

Note: This is demo/fake code, not actual, working code.

var Drupal = {
  jsEnabled: false,
  basePath: 'http://example.com/drupal',
  locales: {},
  settings: {},
  
  addLocales: function(translations) { ... },
  t: function(str, args) { ... },
  watchdog: function(type, message, severity, link) { ... },
  parseJson: function(data) { ... }
};

jQuery.dimensions = function() { ... };
jQuery.absolutePosition = function() { ... };
jQuery.freezeHeight = function() { ... };
jQuery.redirectFormButton = function() { ... };

Konstantin gave me a preview of his work on Admin Usability Improvements: so far, very impressive. I blogged it here.

In order to get external people a little bit more involved into my project, I'll start posting weekly updates and I begin with a summary of what I have done so far.

1. Pave the way for jQuery
   Until now, my main goal was to get jQuery or another kind of JavaScript library into core. This is necessary as my code will have quite some chunks of client side scripts which are a lot easier and faster to develop if you rely on well tested libraries. Fortunately, we are now in the process of rolling in jQuery into Drupal core.