RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Cross Domain Ajax Request

2006-08-17 Thread Hill, Greg
I’d love to see your code snippet that does that ‘cause AFAIK it’s technically impossible in any browser on the market.   Greg   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Ly Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:34 PM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Completely off-topic, so flame me

2006-08-15 Thread Hill, Greg
I'm going to go against the grain here and say I hate it when people use # as the link. It makes the browser jump to the top of the page, and it adds a page to the history. Maybe most people prefer that, but I'm not one of them. Greg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Prototype $$ Question

2006-08-14 Thread Hill, Greg
I agree with Ryan, uniq saves you two letters and makes you cringe every time you write or read it.  Ruby should seriously fix that.   Greg   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Gahl Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:08 AM To: rails-spinoffs@lists

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-08-14 Thread Hill, Greg
Title: Message I’ve always been able to get the documentElement in IE, but I’ve always used text/xml, so maybe that is the key.   Greg   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bauser, Joseph (Joe) Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:25 AM To: rails-spinoffs

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] creating a recycle-bin

2006-08-03 Thread Hill, Greg
> This would work, but the items that I want to delete also contain > textarea, so form elements that I do not want to be submitted. So > somehow i have to completely removed those elements from the DOM. Make the droppable be outside the form element, it will not get submitted then. Greg

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Extending Class.create() for casting objects

2006-07-31 Thread Hill, Greg
I’m wondering if there is some confusion here.  It didn’t seem to me he was advocating static typing in _javascript_, just automatic type-checking when you need it.  Maybe I misread it.  I’m all for dynamic typing.  I’m also all for easy, automatic type-constraining when needed (to turn sil

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-07-28 Thread Hill, Greg
inspection?   Sam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hill, Greg Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:57 PM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question Well, I’m sure xPath is a lot more flexible, but holy cr

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-07-28 Thread Hill, Greg
Title: Message Well, I’m sure xPath is a lot more flexible, but holy crap is that a lot of code.  As I said, mine is limited, but serves my purposes very well.  And it’s generic enough for anyone to use, although it only handles node types 1 to 3.  Anything beyond that will be ignored (or p

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] XML Question

2006-07-28 Thread Hill, Greg
Title: Message No, it’s available.  You might have to say responseXML.documentElement (not sure, but I always do and it works).  Oh, and you could try changing ‘get’ to ‘post’.  I’ve always had moderate to bad success in IE with ‘GET’ requests on Ajax.  Even with no arguments, sometimes IE

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Extending Class.create() for casting objects

2006-07-28 Thread Hill, Greg
> Yes, it is used to catch programming errors by introducing a little type > safety. How many times have you written this in your project: > > function showMenu(obj) { > if(obj instanceof MenuItem) { > obj.getNode().style.visibility = "visible"; > } else throw new Error("Invalid parameter!

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Builder.node label for attribute

2006-07-27 Thread Hill, Greg
If you're assigning it via javascript, it should be htmlFor (label.htmlFor = 'id'). Not sure how builder.node works, but there might need to be a special case added for that one. Greg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rails-spinoffs- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Silly little bug... should be an easy one...

2006-07-26 Thread Hill, Greg
Not sure why that breaks; nothing is screaming at me. However, you may just want to use Element.setOpacity if you don't want it to be a fade effect. It just immediately sets the opacity to the desired setting. I believe this is how you'd write it: Element.setOpacity(aObjectnames[i], 0); Greg

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Effect.fade is bolding text

2006-07-21 Thread Hill, Greg
I don't have a solution, but I have seen that in IE as well. I thought it was kind of cool-looking, so I didn't bother to try to figure it out. Another WTF? question is why in Effect.BlindDown does the text scroll down after the element in some cases? That one boggles me. http://www.librariusme

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Abstract insertion question

2006-07-21 Thread Hill, Greg
Well, in the catch it's looking for a tbody or tr, so I'm guessing that trying to insertAdjacentHTML to a tbody or tr fails in IE and Opera. Maybe it's only certain versions. Greg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rails-spinoffs- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Documenting Prototype...

2006-07-20 Thread Hill, Greg
It looked cool (I installed it and toyed around with it a little), but I can’t imagine having to switch to it whenever I want to work on _javascript_.  Would be better, IMO, to make plugins for existing editors that do the same stuff.  I could use one for Komodo J  As it is, unless I need t

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Javascript Namespacing Question

2006-07-20 Thread Hill, Greg
I’d reckon less than half the list are rails developers, so no worries.  If I had to guess, without having concrete numbers, I’d say YUI is likely faster in general.  Procedural programming is usually faster than object-oriented programming.  That said, Prototype is a lot more flexible and

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Documenting Prototype...

2006-07-19 Thread Hill, Greg
> Easy enough to do with jsmin. I have a bash script that will create > a "minified" version of each js file, which takes about 20% off of > each file, on average. This works well? Last I heard, the 'minifiers' broke on prototype because of the lack of block formatting in various places. If tha

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Documenting Prototype...

2006-07-19 Thread Hill, Greg
> Sounds like a vote to remove the prototype dependency from > scriptaculous. I'm in favor for all sorts of reasons. I'm not. Most of the appeal of scriptaculous to me is the prototype codebase (I use the prototype functions a lot more than the effects). > A clean separation obviates any the-ow

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] Re: Documenting Prototype...

2006-07-19 Thread Hill, Greg
> What is the story with Sam? I don't remember seeing a post from him in > the last year. Sometimes I wonder if his general absence partly due > to the JavaScript community's fervent dislike of his Prototype.js > library. I like his library, I just wish he'd test in IE when he makes major changes

RE: [Spam] Re: [Rails-spinoffs] What I need to do?

2006-07-18 Thread Hill, Greg
>now, one thing js won't let you do is set the value of the file input Actually, there's a proof-of-concept 'security' issue about that. What you do is have a text input and add an onkeydown event that focuses the file input and an onkeyup that re-focuses the text input. Then you filter the inpu

RE: [Rails-spinoffs] scriptaculous appear effect and tiny_mce bug onopera 9

2006-07-17 Thread Hill, Greg
I seem to recall the Effect.Appear setting the final opacity to 0.99 to avoid some bug on some browser; anyone remember the specifics?  Seems like we should probably just conditionally check for the broken browser and set to 0.99 for only that one, otherwise leave it at 1.0, but I know I do

[Rails-spinoffs] I'm back, anything exciting happen while I was gone?

2006-07-17 Thread Hill, Greg
Hey,     I switched jobs, so I haven’t been up on the list for a couple weeks (used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]).  Last I heard Thomas was wanting to nail down the next release, is that still in the works?  Any area I can give some help?  My new job uses the YUI Toolkit, but they just