[pLog-svn] LT-1.3-ajax branch demo

[Oscar Renalias]

I noticed the issue with the wrongly positioned pop-up too, and it
seems that it's an issue in the Yahoo UI library that we're using. I
will keep looking into it.

Regarding the positioning of the buttons (and also in response to
Elena's same comment), the locations you see now are not final... I
just couldn't find a better place to put them :-) There's still tons
to be polished if we decide to go for this and so far all we see is a
rough implementation of some new ideas.

But it's good to see that the feedback is positive so far!

On 7/16/07, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>         I didn't notice the "New Article Category" and "New Link" buttons
> for a while - they probably should be black or have something else changed
> to be more obvious.
>
>         I had one strange bug that I can't reproduce, where the first time
> I logged in, I added a new category, and then typed in the title, and
> couldn't click or type in the tinymce window at all.  I reloaded the page,
> (no cookie was saved, though it might have been too short of a time for
> the cookie to be saved) and then I could type my post.
>
>         When I click the "new link" button, the window that appears is not
> centered in the window (I got a couple css errors about "align" not
> existing, I am not sure if that is related).  So, I have to scroll down to
> see the entire window.  As soon as I hit the bottom of the scrollbar, the
> screen flashes a couple times, and then it sort of scrolls back up and the
> window eventually ends up being centered without a scrollbar at all (since
> it is no longer needs).
>
>         Hrm. I posted an article successfully, but the auto-save cookie
> wasn't cleared, so when I went back to the "new post" page later, it gave
> me the unsaved message warning.
>
>         In general, I like it.
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>
> > After hacking away the last few days working on some new ideas for
> > 1.3 (most of them based around ajax to "spice up" the admin interface
> > a little), I've set up a test installation at http://
> > devel.lifetype.net/lifetype-1.3-ajax/admin.php (LT user=user / LT
> > password=user - HTTP user=devel / HTTP password=d3v3l)
> >
> > Basically, this is what I've been toying with:
> >
> > - Added a performAjax() to many action classes, so that they generate
> > content ready to be consumed by a json/javascript client. Just append
> > "&output=json" to a URL like "admin.php?op=addArticleCategory" and
> > see the results.
> >
> > - Based on the work above, validation of forms via XmlHttpRequest has
> > been implemented, where field errors are reported in the background
> > and dynamically displayed in the form wherever necessary.
> >
> > - All the "New XXX" options ("New Link", "New Category", etc) options
> > have been moved, so that for example "New Link" is now an option that
> > appears only in the "Links" page and so on. Doing so has allowed the
> > "Manage" menu to go down to 7 options which now all fit in one single
> > row of tabs. I'd like to reduce the number of options available when
> > users click "Manage", do we really need 12 of them in there?
> >
> > - In addition to the idea above, all the "New XXX" and "Edit XXX"
> > screens are modal dialogues that appear as some sort of pop-up
> > overlaid on top of the current screen. The idea is that users don't
> > lose focus of where they are, so if they're browsing the list of
> > categories, I think it's safe to assume that they should stay there
> > if they want to edit or add a new category.
> >
> > - Better usage of the screen space in the "Resources" page, now files
> > appear in some sort of dynamic table that allows to show a lot more
> > of them.
> >
> > You don't need to install this branch in your computers, I'm making
> > it easy to test this in our server and send us your feedback :-) We'd
> > like to know if we're going the right way.
> >
> > Oscar
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