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

[Reto Hugi]

Hi Oscar

As you may imagine I like you work to clean up the UI. You're work with
YUI Overlays is definitely better than my early lightbox implementation
in terms of size and speed.

Of course using overlays (iFrames) will result in a transitional xhtml.
but I think it's ok to be 1.0 transitional.

cheers,
reto

On 07/15/2007 11:40 PM, 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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