Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
The Javascript and HTML for this can't be too complicated, can it? It would do essentially the same thing that Matthew's HomePage mockup did. You know how it hides and unhides content? We can use that same JS script for this, with some modifications.
Kay is our resident expert on javascript. (Kay may be surprised to hear
this.)
oh boy...we're in BIG trouble now if this is the case! :}
Kay, how feasible would it be to implement something like what Daniel
suggests?
well with all things technical, there's feasible and there's feasible. What Daniel suggests is in some ways similar to what we've done with the DL page --I'm talking specifically about the JS involved.
What Daniel would like would be *insanely* uncomplicated if we had a DB backend and could use something like php or Perl cgis to access it.
However, using JS to do basically DB operations is a nightmare! What happens is all possible entries must be maintained as individual items within the script itself. Louis et al have had to manually change directory references in the DL script when we go to different versions, so I know they know what I'm talking about here. Client side JS, which is all we've got as I understand it (server side JS would open another nice world to us for file access), using drop down refinement selections like this is basically ONLY good (read manageable) if you have basically a standard set of options each time. What Daniel is suggesting is a "moving target" of options for these tasks. Attempting to use JS for this in infeasiable. We have NO way for "task masters" to enter in data like this easily without having them go in an actually modify the JS script each time something is added.
Your idea of having a form to submit tasks is super! Too bad we don't have a backend DB to help process stuff like this.
I don't know what's going to happen process-wise with something like Matthew's JS drop downs either. Again, it does indeed lead to complications in maintenance.
Maybe Louis could work on getting us a nice little mySQL server that we could run either php or cgi scripts from as well. THAT I could handle.;)
Cheers Louis
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