Kangax, +1 on an official extensions site, perhaps this conversation _should_ move to core. :)
Meanwhile, thank you for Scripteka! -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com On Mar 9, 2:55 am, kangax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We created scripteka to make it easy to find scripts scattered all > over the web. One thing we didn't account for is a quality of > extensions - from 100 (currently published) scripts only 5-6 (!!!) > have unit tests. I sometimes have to reject a submitted script just > because it's quality is clearly doubtful. Moreover, some people don't > feel like submitting a 10 line snippet. > > Does anyone else find it obvious that we need an *official* set of > extensions? There are many things we simply can't put into a core. > That doesn't mean we can't release an official extension with unit > tests, versioned in a trunk. Even small things like mouse:wheel could > make a huge difference. > > Best, > kangax > > On Mar 8, 3:25 pm, Andrew Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 8, 2:04 pm, "Ken Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I remember a conversation a while back about mousewheel and > > > mouseenter/leave where the core members indicated that such support is > > > probably better left to plugins. If so, I'd like to see such plugins > > > officially endorsed, especially when it is not obvious to the average > > > user how to augment the 1.6 Event system to add these types of > > > features. > > > The whole idea of plugins/add-on scripts is something we need to spend > > more time on, by my own admission. > > > In the meantime, you've reminded me that I never posted my "official" > > solution to generating custom mouse:enter and mouse:leave events. Here > > it is [1]. (Warning: untested and written off the top of my head as I > > sit on a couch at SXSW.) And the mouse:wheel example can be found on > > my weblog [2]. > > > If someone wants to merge the two scripts and submit the result to > > Scripteka, feel free. ;-) > > > [1]http://pastie.caboo.se/163335 > > [2]http://andrewdupont.net/2007/11/07/pseudo-custom-events-in-prototype-16/ > > > Cheers, > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
