ajax

In the last couple of weeks we were working with Avi Mehta on a module that allows for asynchronously loading nodes. The module provides an interface to views as well as themable functions for the ones among us who love to tinker. An asynchronous pager like on http://www.searchmash.com/search/drupal is also in the works. There is a concept for asynchronously loading blocks.

It's been five weeks since the last update and a ton of progress has been made on Advanced Poll:

• Ported to Drupal 5.0 - all new development is occuring on the 5.0 branch
• Dynamically add or remove poll choices
• PostgreSQL support (additional testing needed)
• Start dates for polls
• Submit votes using Ajax
• List polls at /polls
• Cache voting results
• Add/remove individual users from Electoral List and a button to clear it entirely
• Allow votes to be reset
• Numerous bug fixes

Demo available at http://advpoll.ck37.com and additional discussion can go in the Advanced Poll working group. Please submit all bug reports and feature requests to the issue queue.

Hi all,

Here are a few sketchy to interpret, yet interesting tests results benchmarking Prototype v. jQuery, by Claudio Cicali. The blogger's conclusions: Despite rumors on the internet, jQuery is not slower than Prototype.

ajaxian.com has a few more comments on these tests.

I've done a couple of handbook pages regarding Drupal/jQuery etc. I've been doing some stuff with jQuery and thought it was useful to document it. If you see any major issues or mistakes, which I expect will be there, please add your comments to the pages.

I am not 'JS or 'Ajax' developer myself but I just spotted the 'JCE Utilities Mambot' jQuery integration of WYSWYG editor. I thought I should post here.

Since Drupal jQuery is in the core Drupal5, to integrate a 'simple' jQuery WYSWYG editor ~alternative to TinyMCE and HTMLarea (which reqires a 3rd party code) would be possible idea i presume.

'JCE Layout Manager'
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/

some screenshots
image browser and attachment
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/images/stories/sort.jpg
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/images/stories/window2.jpg

JCE Joomla Content editor is overkill like the Joomla itself -imo- But I a WYSWYG editor with basic HTML tag marking + image/media/file browser&attachment functionality would greatly help to improve Drupal on that front.

hi all,

due to developments in my personal and work life, i've decided to step away from drupal development (chatroom and otherwise), for the foreseeable future.

i won't have the time take the chatroom module to the next level, so i'm seeking a maintainer to take over the module.

if anyone is interested, please contact me off list.

cheers
justin

After a lot of fine work on Avi's part, his formbuilder.module is ready for testing.

The code is in Drupal CVS but needs separate downloading because it includes two external open source but non-GPL libraries: jQuery and PEAR's JSON package.

I've put the latest version for temporary download here.

To test:

1. Install and enable the module.
2. Optional--change settings of your sidebar blocks so they don't display at admin/formbuilder. The UI is wide and otherwise, depending on your screen size/resolution, it may not fit.

We've talked about future CCK tie-ins to the form builder, and are keeping this in mind as a future add-on.

What about Views?

Views module provides a code-accessible representation of tables, fields, etc. Presumably, on this basis we could pre-populate a draft form array, or provide a data reference for the form builder (default values for fields, etc.).

Once the iframe is created and after the design mode is activated I call the activateHearBeat() function. This function does the refresh loop of the document calling itself with the setTimeOut() js function and calling the updateDocument() on each iteration.

The updateDocument() is now very simple but it will have to set all post vars to send them to the server in each async call.

<?php
function updateDocument()
{
// set post vars
// (...)
.
// do async call

Below you'll find a summary of some the email exchange between me and Ernest. It would be good if anyone interested commented on the various issues discussed there. Reading through that again makes me feel like a chatterbox. No one is perfect :)

Ernest: I'll go back to the crossbrowser details once we see the collaborative edition working on the screen as we said, even if it's only in FF for now.

Vlado: Are the cross-browser problems mainly related to design mode? Can the design mode be avoided, at least for the time being?

Ernest The issues I posted yesterday concerned only to the iform creation and design mode. I don't see now a means to avoid the design mode, do you?