On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Peter2 wrote:
> isn't that the whole point of IPE, to make elements, you know, > Editable In Place? > > if everyone wanted to use FORMs then we would never have any reason > for an IPE, but someone decided that this IPE thing might be a good > idea, that there was value in it, and i happen to agree. Yes, but who ever needed to edit an editable thing? That reminds me of the picture of the wine bottle with the picture of the wine bottle on the label with the picture... It sounds to me as though you are frustrated with the bare-bones IPE. Which is fine, and understandable. But the way that you are going about fixing it -- you could simply make a custom form page and use other parts of scriptactulous to make that form submit out-of-band, i.e.: in the same way that the IPE works. Then you could also set the default behavior of your Textarea to not be selected. You could make the page not jump around, etc. IPE is a very general purpose tool, and to get it to fit into your scheme may be more work than it's worth. Really, you are rowing upstream as fast as you can here, but this seems to me to be a lot of effort to fix something which I'm not convinced is broken. I use IPE in places. I also use Ajax.Updater to handle form submits, as I demo'd to you. They each have their place. Finally, take a careful look at the css rules that you can apply to the IPE. That may fix your entire issue with the page jumping around and changing shape on you. Fix the visual problem in the presentation layer -- the plumbing and structure work just fine. Walter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" 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/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
