Autocomplete with a decent Java script framework will do better for everyone.
Regards, Krish On Dec 24, 9:40 am, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > 1+ for distance_of_time_in_words function. I have rolled out my own > > long time back based on stackoverflow implementation. > > I made a ticket for Andrey's post and will consider > it.http://bitbucket.org/bbangert/webhelpers/issue/17/alternate-distance_... > > The current implementation is taken from the old rails helper without > much change. pretty_date is more of a time_ago_in_words than a > distance_of_time_in_words, BTW. > > > I have written utilities to convert to_ascii and to_utf8 like > > functions but still they are error prone :-(. When we crawl and > > collect information on job posting, we have some non-ascii chars which > > are not converting to ascii. But I don't know it make sense with > > webhelpers. > > webhelpers.text is using unidecode if installed, and it seems to be > pretty slick. It converts non-ASCII characters to visual equivalents. > I thought about including unidecode in WebHelpers but the lookup > tables are too big. > > > feedparser (www.feedparser.org/) does so much of useful > > tricks. > > > However I don't use to_ascii, to_utf_8 with pylons. We are using > > Celery, a python based job scheduler (uses multi-processing and > > concurrency, message q). It has been written with Django orm. I am > > working on porting to sqlalchemy. > > > Some more things (not sure whether they are really web helpers) > > > 1. submission feed to twitter > > 2. submission to friendfeed. > > These two would not really be webhelpers because they're tied to > specific services. You can put a recipe in the Pylons Cookbook. > > > 3. Auto complete for form field > > Hmm, WebHelpers has stopped being involved in Javascript, but this > would be generally useful so a small implementation might be OK. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
