Juha, this is not a bad idea, but quite difficult if you have a difficult structured object.
For example, my helper is a table with three columns all with a different background. Your way would be slicing the helper and having a one px space where my cursor is. Very interesting indeed, but also needs performance because of this: 1.) on drag start, you have to clone the object 4 times and wrap a div around every object. 2.) then set the outer div to overflow: hidden and resize each of them like a puzzle around the cursor 3.) Then move every 4 along with the cursor I will test it, we'll see! 2006/11/28, Juha Suni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Considering option 3 and the disadvantage of the cursor not being able to be on top of the helper: Have you guys considered ways to go around this. Since #3 seems like the fastest, you might want to look for little tricks. I quickly crunched together a small proof-of-concept showing that you can get the effect of the cursor being on top of the helper while still accessing the elements below through event.target. Yes, technically there is no helper-element under the cursor, but a few surrounding it giving the same effect. Although at first it might seem a little hackish, the code isn't that much, and even my glue-and-gum proof-of-concept seems to work ok. At least it should scale nicely since it doesn't really care about the amount of droppables. It shouldn't be too hard to add some background color / image stuff to the "helper" if more visuals are needed. Oh, and this is 100% only Firefox-tested and coded, to see if this is feasible at all. Will propably explode with any other browser, currently. Check it out at: http://www.sparecom.fi/test/ -- Suni _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
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