How useful is Ajax? I am working on a module to record who allows Javascript, who has xmlhttp available for Ajax and to give users control over Ajax. Part of the project is described in Statistics visitor enhancement. The rest is described here.
The aim is to record who allows the use of Ajax and let people decide to not use Ajax even when available. Javascript and xmlhttp availability is recorded by the statistics_visitor module for all visitors then displayed and analysed in the statistics_report module. There will be an option where people can modify their user profile to just say no to Ajax, something of use to visually impaired people using screen to voice readers. Hopefully when people use multiple site logons, their preference for not using Ajax can be transmitted to other sites.
The modules depend only on Drupal core so that the recording and reporting can be implemented without downloading any other module.
The modules can work with the statistics module to link the two sets of data but does not need the statistics module for anything. The data can be linked into the statistics data through a very small enhancement to the statistics module and the statistics_report module will be able to automatically pick up all the other linked data.
The code is independent of Drupal 4.7 to the point where someone could easily maintain a 4.6 version, which is important to me because some of my sites will remain on 4.6 for a few months more.
The code is designed to be as light as possible and include code portions only when used. The code, when linked to other data recording, can increase the range of information recorded while reducing the overall volume of data recorded.
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this sounds really
this sounds really interesting.. this weekend when I have more I want to catch up on everything related to this group and what you have.