That's an interesting thing to try. My problem is a bit more severe because the items I am moving are divs that actually have <p> elements attached to them as labels.
Last night I looked at the jQuery solar system... http://www.willjessup.com/sandbox/jquery/solar_system/rotator.html That's an interesting demo. His planets are hyperlinks. He did that because css is willing to scale hyperlinks with font-size. Wild. He doesn't have a drag interface, so it's all kinda out-of-control. But it's cool. I notice that when you run his site in IE, you can actually drag across the planets and select them, which is pretty nasty- looking. He's saved by the fact that there's no reason for people to do that. One possible solution to my mess is to use a bitmapped font rather than mess with having <p> elements as part of my display. On Feb 22, 10:28 am, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Timothy, > > sorry I'm jumping into this so late. You've probably already tried > something like this, but as I was reading your last email below, I > wondered if you could: > > 1. append a transparent gif to the body on document ready > 2. make the trans.gif display: none; position:absolute; > 3. when your event starts ... > a. .show() the trans.gif and set its height and width to the > document's height and width. > b. set the z-index of the dragged element to a high number and the z- > index of the trans.gif to high-number - 1. > 4. .hide() the trans.gif when the action is complete > > so, you're basically sliding in a layer in between the thing you're > dragging and the rest of the document. just a thought. Again, you may > have already tried this, or rejected it for a very good reason, but I > thought I'd throw it out there, just in case it might help. > > --Karl > _________________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:50 AM, timothytoe wrote: > > > > > I battled ie through the night. Ultimately, it won. > > > There are many ways to address the text selection issue. I found, I > > think six solutions on the web. I was heavy into capturing the mouse > > and event propagation (the div I'm "watching" is a few layers deep in > > the hierarchy). > > > All of the solutions, though, drastically affected my framerate and > > responsiveness. The message system gets gummed up and the user > > experiences jerks and seizures where it had been perfectly smooth and > > robust before. > > > Finally, at 3am, I decided to stick with the most common solution > > (onselectstart returning false) and mitigate the framerate issues in > > other ways. It's a shame. No other browser is detrimentally affected > > in performance by disallowing text selection. > > > If this happens to you, you're not nuts, or at least no more nuts than > > I am. > > > On Feb 21, 5:08 pm, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Returning false for onselectstart <i>severely</i> depressed my frame > >> rate, which is ridiculous. > > >> I tried it in code, and I tried it in the html (ondragstart="return > >> false" onselectstart="return false"). Either way, wham! Any way you > >> can test to see if you were hit? Perhaps you were doing something > >> less > >> demanding than I am? Or on a faster PC? > > >> On Feb 21, 8:46 am, Eli_Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> We recently dealt with the same problem with IE on the Fluid > >>> project. > >>> We fixed it by trapping both the ondrag and onselectstart events. > >>> Note: these events only need to be trapped in IE and they are not > >>> jQuery events so you need to cast the object to a browser DOM object > >>> before trapping. > > >>> Here is our code. Note that domNode is a jQuery object that was > >>> set up > >>> in an earlier function and get(0) is what casts it to a browser DOM > >>> object. > > >>> if (jQuery.browser.msie) { > >>> domNode.get(0).ondrag = function () { return false; }; > >>> domNode.get(0).onselectstart = function () { return false; }; > > >>> } > > >>> - Eli Cochran > >>> user interaction developer > >>> ETS, UC Berkeley > > >>> On Feb 20, 5:23 pm, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> Thanks. I got it to work with 2 preventDefaults (the one for IE and > >>>> the one for the other browsers), but I've not tried IE6 yet, so I > >>>> may > >>>> yet need to have your tricks up my sleeve. Thanks. I'll get back > >>>> here > >>>> with a final listing of code once I'm sure I'm working on all the > >>>> A- > >>>> grade jQuery-supported browsers. > > >>>> On Feb 20, 12:07 pm, "Josh Nathanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> wrote: > > >>>>> I believe the one for IE is "stopPropagation()" or something > >>>>> like that. > > >>>>> Also, did you try putting "return false" after all the other > >>>>> code for your > >>>>> mousemove? I seem to recall that helped me in a similar > >>>>> situation. > > >>>>> $("#actionSurface").mousemove(function(e){ > >>>>> ... save off current x and y ... > >>>>> ... move shit around > >>>>> return false; <--- add this > >>>>> }); > > >>>>> -- Josh > > >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>>> From: "timothytoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com> > >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:48 AM > >>>>> Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to keep text from being highlighted > >>>>> when I'm > > >>>>> handling the mouse events > > >>>>>> Yeah, so surprise. Doesn't work on IE. Anyone have any ideas > >>>>>> for that > >>>>>> browser?
