On Jul 12, 6:04 pm, Francois Bertrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> If more and more widgets are added, there is a potential version
> problem with referenced CSS/js resources they may need to share. For
> example, the Flot widget needs the google canvas for IE (http://
> excanvas.sourceforge.net/). Actually this javascript is inside the
> Flot widget code and it shouldn't be there.
>
> Another problem is, if the same widget is used twice in the same page,
> how do I avoid include the CSS/js resources twice?
Lift takes care of that when it merges heads.
Is is a problem if
> the widget needs a "one time per page" initialization.
>
> In both case, a API to manage shared resource would be useful. Maybe,
> Lift has an elegant solution I'm not aware of and only a little
> documentation will suffice.
>
> Francois
>
> On Jul 12, 2:58 am, "marius d." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Well widgets don't have a whole lot of commonalities besides the init
> > () method. Regarding destroy() that would probably be helpful for
> > widgets that are communicating remotely with other services. The rest
> > of the widget functions are mostly very specific helper functions that
> > renders markup, JS script tags etc, and work with very specific data
> > models.
>
> > Br's
> > Marius
>
> > On Jul 12, 3:03 am, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm not sure, depends I guess.
> > > > Just a simple onLoad/onUnload callback could be enough...
> > > > (The unload is to make sure not to leak mem if you're just reloading the
> > > > webapp without restarting the server)
>
> > > That was my thinking - right now the pattern appears to be "def init"
> > > for booting the widget, so perhaps, init and destroy methods would be
> > > good appropriate. Like I said, just something to make this stuff a
> > > known, typeable quantity would be good.
>
> > > > Java Specialist
> > > > Scala Loudmouth
> > > > Lift Committer
>
> > > What happened to your rouge architect signature?!
>
> > > Cheers, Tim
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