Javascript

Other than this there isnt really much that strikes me as being overly weird about javascript but I cannot find any good documentation on this syntax that I have seen around because I dont know what it does! Any suggestions or documentation would be great thanks, its just been bugging me...

(function() {
    // ...
})();

(function() {
    // ...
})(var);

function() {
    // ...
})();

Hello everybody,

I'm sure this is not the right place to post this. It's just that I'm not sure where to post it and I'm about to pull whats left of my hair out messing with this ajax stuff. I have an idea for a niche website and am working to develop it. I want to throw in some ajax and jquery in order to enhance the user experience. So I'm trying to learn how to do things with ajax.

Over on the MySite project we're having a recurring issue with handling the JavaScript for Google Gadgets on our pages. It looks as though there is a problem with the order in which the JS are executed -- but that's really a guess on my part.

Sometimes, Flash embeds don't fully load: http://drupal.org/files/issues/gadgets.png

Sometimes, the JS loads the same element repeatedly: http://drupal.org/files/issues/GoogleWidgetScreenshot.png

Expert 'scripters exploring the issue would be much appreciated.

http://drupal.org/node/170660

I just added a new slideshow mode to the Views Slideshow module. You can see a demo at Drupal Hub. It uses JQuery and views, so any type of view could be made into a slideshow. The current modes are single frame, as seen in the left sidebar of the demo page, and with 'thumbnails' as shown on the content of that page.

I also revamped the themes for it, making it easier to theme specific elements of the slideshow.

Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you know about a new views related module, Dynamic Views. (http://drupal.org/project/dynamic_views) It allows you to dynamically update the main content area (no page reload) when you click a node link in a view block. It also allows you to change dynamically update a view using a filter at the top. You can combine it with some elements of the jquery interface library for some pretty cool effects. (see http://warnerbrosrecords.com/artists)

Has anyone had a chance to check out the new JQuery UI? I think it is what people have been referring to as Interface2.

Update: It looks like Dimitri has created the UI project to deal with jQuery UI in D6. I have just created the jQuery UI Backport project to allow the library to be used in D5 without breaking anything.

With the announcement today of another four weeks before Drupal 6 freeze, we have another chance to get some critically needed Javascript patches into Drupal core.

Very few Javascript patches go through, mostly for lack of in-depth reviews. Please, everyone on this list, take your turn in reviewing Javascript patches! Better yet, wade in and help make improvements to the patches.

Here's a link to Javascript issues needing review:

http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?components=javascript&states=8%2...

A few highlights:

Just a quick pointer to the jQuery Interface Sortable module that we added last week. In 5.x, it depends on the excellent jQuery Update and jQuery Interface modules. In 6.x (or HEAD -- I'm still trying to figure out how I got that 6.x release node in there), it only requires jQuery Interface.

As part of SWF Tools you can embed Flash into the webpage in 2 obvious ways:
- directly embedded into the html.
- with a flash replacement technique (eg. SWFObject, jquery.flash.js, and UFO to come)

So, say my choice, as administrator, is SWFObject. But what if the user has javascript turned off? I think the result is no flash (even though the use might want to see it).