This could provide a good basis for the iframe idea. http://sublog.subimage.com/articles/2006/01/01/subModal
Thanks, D. On 10/25/06, Danny Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think both approaches are probably valid. We've got lots of uses where we'd only need the in-page version (e.g. display the date picker, select filters for tables, etc.). I'll look into an initial in-page version and see where to take it from there. D. On 10/25/06, Simon Lessard < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I kind of like the idea, it would help going around the popup blocker > issues. That being said, there's some design issue to talk about. First, > how > will that pseudo dialog will be populated? Do we want to harmonize it > with > our current dialog framework or not? If not then we could simply place > the > content as child of the div. However, if we want to harmonize it (which > is > better imho) we would have to populate it with another page content. > This > has some problems that I can think of: > > 1) The navigation must be evaluated (can be handled with some > NavigationHandler magic); > 2) The page content must be read (Facelets can handle that, but that > would > create a "strong" dependency between Trinidad and Facelets); > 3) The Facelets would have to be stripped of the HTML/BODY/HEAD > generating > elements. That one can be painful, we could also use a special > ResponseWriter to ignore those elements though; > 4) Work out the return events. > > > Regards, > > ~ Simon > > On 10/25/06, Danny Robinson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any comments on Dave's email below? I'd like to ask > for > > some direct on this and how it might be achieved wither currently, or > in > > the > > future. > > > > Thx, > > > > D. > > > > On 9/15/06, David Brunette < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi everybody. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have had a look at the Dialog Framework that is available in > > > Trinidad. It looks like a nice way to show the user a small bit of > > > content for a short period of time before returning to the original > > > page. While designing our application, we like that... but we are > > > hoping to avoid the opening of a new instance of the browser, which > is > > > what the dialog itself really is. Instead, we would like to show > that > > > small bit of content in a "floating DIV" (I believe that's the right > > > term?) that would open and close just like a dialog would. I > haven't > > > found anything in JSF/Trinidad that will do this for us, so my > question > > > is: > > > > > > > > > > > > 1) Is there actually a component out there that allows us to > show > > > content in a floating DIV, and I've just overlooked it? > > > > > > 2) If not, would it spark enough interest to eventually come > up > > > with one? > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm interested in anybody's thoughts about this. Thanks... > > > > > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Chordiant Software Inc. > > www.chordiant.com > > > > > > -- Chordiant Software Inc. www.chordiant.com
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