On 09/25/2014 06:11 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > Hi devs, > > There are a couple of places in XWiki were a tree widget is used or > needed: document index, WYSIWYG editor wiki page linking, XAR import, > navigation panel, database tree list, report step of Distribution > Wizard, extension upgrade when asking confirmation to clean unused > pages, etc. But we don't have a standard / recommended tree widget / > library. We use either SmartClient which is very heavy or a custom > tree based on Prototype.js. > > Since we want to ditch the heavy SmartClient tree and we decided to > move away from the dead Prototype.js to jQuery I propose to use jsTree > ( http://www.jstree.com/ ) as the standard / recommended library for > creating trees in XWiki. > > It is one of the best and most used tree widgets written using jQuery. > I have used jsTree on the File Manager ( > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/File+Manager+Application > ) and it was a positive experience. Moreover, there are other > extensions based on, like the Dynamic Hierarchy Macro ( > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Dynamic+Hierarchy+Macro > ). > > My plan is: > * include jsTree in the default distribution (through a webjar > dependency); it won't be loaded by default, obviously; you'll have to > use Require.js to load it. > * start rewriting the current trees using jsTree > > Here's my +1. >
Looks flexible enough, although the default style looks too colorful. +1. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
