I *was* hoping someone had built something in Raphael - it seems the obvious choice for graphically pretty widgets, rather than stuffing around with css and images. Though text-input elements would obviously be best to stay in html.
At the moment I think I'll go with html5 sliders, and fall back to a validated text box for firefox users; when I get time I might replace it with a raphael slider, but maybe by then Firefox 4 will be out :) - Korny On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought this was about Raphael-based widgets. If not, and you're > using jQuery, check out jQuery-UI. I'm personally not a big fan of it, > but hey, it's code you don't have to write and it's well maintained. > > > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, I thought about html5 ranges; however while I don't need to support > > IE, I do have a wider audience than just devs, so I probably need to work > on > > Firefox 3.6 at least. > > I might use modernizr to allow for html5 ranges where supported, and fall > > back to a simple text box otherwise; or maybe hack together a slider in > > raphael... > > re: scriptaculous slider - I'm using jquery, don't really want to mix in > > scriptaculous as well. There are some jquery sliders out there, which I > > might consider. > > re: whoever dissed dials - yep, dials was probably a poor example :) > > Sliders + standard form elements probably cover most of my needs, now I > > think about it further. > > - Korny > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Lachie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Hi - I'm throwing together a page with some Raphael-based graphs and I > >> > want > >> > to add some simple widgets to control the parameters used to draw the > >> > graphs > >> > - things like sliders, dials, simple text boxes to change numeric > >> > values, > >> > etc. > >> > >> Have you considered using html5? > >> > >> http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-number > >> http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-range > >> > >> :lachie > >> > >> > This only needs to work on new browsers (no IE) - I'm wondering if > >> > anyone > >> > has any suggestions for where to get/build these widgets. > >> > Most of the libraries out there seem like overkill; they all feel the > >> > need > >> > to support old browsers, and they tend to assume you want to post the > >> > results as a form back to a server. > >> > I just want to call a javascript callback... > >> > I could build my own in Raphael, but that also seems like work; I'll > do > >> > that > >> > if I have to, but I'm hoping someone has already done this for me! > >> > Suggestions? > >> > - Korny > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > >> > kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny > >> > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > >> > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > >> > isn't thinking of" > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups > >> > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > > kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny > > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > > isn't thinking of" > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > http://crazyhollywood.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. 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