To anyone who was interested in this, I released another version (1.2) today to fix a pretty significant bug that was created in the previous release. The "dragProxy" event property was being set late causing incorrect behavior.
http://plugins.jquery.com/node/4268 On Oct 4, 8:41 pm, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/a4becc... > >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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
