Thanks Mike for clarifying. It certainly would be interesting to know if jQuery UI could, with the 1.2.6 performance improvements, implement the ui.mouse stuff as custom events.
Jörn On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:34 AM, mike.helgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I always told myself I had no interest in making a drag and drop > plugin, but found a repeated code pattern in my own work, and had to > explore making it re-usable. If people are happy with jQuery UI > draggable and droppable, which is great, keep using it. I have found > these drag events to be very useful and wanted to share it with the > community. I have mostly targeted developers because it is not > intended for everyone to just start using. This code is more similar > to the "$.ui.mouse" mixin object from the ui.core dependency than it > is to the actual "draggable" plugin. I just happen to prefer binding > events than mixing in methods. So it just comes down to a matter of > preference. > > So this newest version of the plugin has about five bug fixes, and one > inadvertently introduced a new bug, so another release is imminent. > The release notes are included on the plugin/release page as well as > in the download. http://plugins.jquery.com/node/4208 > > I have not done any extensive testing, but found the performance of > the special event drag (and drop) plugins to be perfectly fine. If the > UI team is interested in any of this stuff, I would love to know. I > think a thing or two could be taken from the drop plugin, like the > "overlap" mode. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/drop > > Brandon, slightly off topic but related to drag/drop performance, Have > you gotten a chance to look at this? > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/a4becc9a5cc34fea > http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3082 > > -mike > > On Oct 4, 3:27 pm, "Brandon Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Yehuda Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > According to Paul, implementing everything as a normal event became >> > prohibitively slow with large sets of draggables/droppables, which is why >> > certain things in their draggables are implemented as callbacks (for >> > speed). >> > I personally think it's worth investigating the possibility of speeding up >> > jQuery's events to make them scale better. >> >> Has this been tested since the major speed up with events in 1.2.6. This >> speed up might make it possible again to use events. >> >> -- >> Brandon Aaron > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
