[Proto-Scripty] Re: News Items List
Hi again,
Now this time I cleared the cache before posting here.
My list looks as follows:
ul
lia href=#Link/a/li
lia href=#Link/a/li
/ul
Using CSS I have removed the list-style-type as well as any indenting.
In Firefox it works.
In IE8 however there is a left indent of at least 10px.
Strangely enough this indent only appears when I link to the .js file
in the head of the document. Without the javascript, there is no
indent in IE8.
Does this indent have something to do with the JavaScript?
On Mar 15, 11:43 am, PartisanEntity partisanent...@gmail.com wrote:
You guys are going to kill me.
I cleared the browser cache, and it's working in IE8 too, I'm so sorry
for wasting your time :)
On Mar 15, 11:02 am, PartisanEntity partisanent...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry that was just a typo from me.
It is document.observe...
On Mar 15, 10:49 am, David Behler d.beh...@gmail.com wrote:
You might wanna try
document.observe();
instead of
document.observer();
David
Am 15.03.2011 10:34, schrieb PartisanEntity:
Sorry just to clarify:
Line 3 Char3 is the first line of your function. So it's the line
starting with: document.observer(.
On Mar 15, 10:04 am, PartisanEntitypartisanent...@gmail.com wrote:
The link is currently behind a firewall so I can't post it. But here
is what IE says:
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/
4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR
3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8)
Timestamp: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:01:36 UTC
Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 3
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI:http://www.test.com/_includes/newseffect/slideeffect.js
On Mar 14, 5:46 pm, Walter Lee Daviswa...@wdstudio.com wrote:
And you also loaded Prototype and Scriptaculous before that, in that
order, right? Can you post a link? I have IE8 with a debugger enabled
here on a VM, I could see if any errors suggest themselves.
Walter
On Mar 14, 2011, at 12:20 PM, PartisanEntity wrote:
The list is displayed in its entirety without animations.
It's almost as if the JavaScript it being ignored completely in IE8.
I pasted your JavaScript into a file which I called newslist.js.
I linked to it in the head section of my html file like so:
script type=text/javascript src=http://www.test.com/_includes/
newsbox/newslist.js/script
On Mar 14, 3:43 pm, Walter Lee Daviswa...@wdstudio.com wrote:
No, but please define doesn't work. Does the animation fail, does
the
text not change...?
Walter
On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:34 AM, PartisanEntity wrote:
Hi Walter,
Thanks so much for this. It is working perfectly.
There is only one issue I am having:
While it works in Firefox and Safari, I tried using IE8 and noticed
that it works on one computer, but not on another.
Do you have any experiences with this script and IE8, anything to
watch out for?
Thanks!
On Mar 12, 5:02 pm, Walter Lee Daviswa...@wdstudio.com wrote:
Here's a cut-down version of the code generated by my NewsCycle
plug-
in for Softpress Freeway.
document.observe('dom:loaded',function(){
var newsSource = $('yourListId');
var delayBetweenItems = 3;
var effectSpeed = 0.6;
var tag =
newsSource.firstDescendant().tagName.toLowerCase();
var data =
newsSource.select(tag).invoke('hide').pluck('innerHTML');
var news = newsSource.down(tag).show();
var index = 0;
var newsCycle = function(){
index = (++index= data.length ? 0 : index)
new Effect.Fade(news,{
delay:delayBetweenItems,
duration:effectSpeed,
afterFinish:function(){
new Effect.BlindDown(news,{
duration:effectSpeed,
beforeStart:function(){
news.update(data[index]);
},
afterFinish:newsCycle
});
}
});
};
newsCycle();
});
You need prototype and scriptaculous effects in the page first,
obviously, and you need to fill in the id of your list. My plug-in
has
extra code to make it list agnostic, so you could simplify this
a
lot if you knew that your effect was only ever being applied to a
list. You could also use this as written on a DIV with a bunch of
P
tags in it, or a DIV with a bunch of DIVs in it -- there's no end
to
the
[Proto-Scripty] i didn't understand a thing about events
Hello everyone!
i would like to do script in this way:
Event.observe(window, load, function()
{
$$('form').each
(
function(object)
{
Event.observe(object, submit, preventDoubleClick);
}
);
});
function PreventDoubleClick(event)
{
var element = event.element();
submit_button = element.down(input[type='submit']); // This
doesn't work! $(this).down(input[type='submit'] doesn't work!
.//disable button and reenable it later..
}
So, what i don't understand is why the parameter looses its conception
of DOM under it. I can obtain the CORRECT result doing $
('myform').down(input[type='submit'])
what is the concept i am ignoring??
thank you very much
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[Proto-Scripty] Re: Rails 3.1 - Prototype = WTF?
Hi, I found this answer(by andrew dupont) in quora to a question about the prototype library. Question was What must Prototype JS do to become the library of choice?Edit Once Prototype JS was very popular until jQuery was released and became very popular. What are the things you feel Prototype JS must do in order to become the library of choice?. Answer by Andrew Dupont. I'm the co-maintainer of Prototype. I don't speak for Tobie (my fellow co-maintainer) or Sam (who created Prototype), but here's what I feel: In recent years, Prototype has been starved for development resources. Unlike jQuery, nobody's working on it full-time; I work on it more than anyone else, but I've got a full-time job as well. On one hand, we're genuinely out of new areas to tackle and are looking more toward a reimagining of the existing API than toward adding large new features; on the other hand, there's a definite lack of polish, and I hope to address that in subsequent releases. Where would I improve Prototype? Well, let's start with Keith's list. About half of it is stuff that we've got planned, whether for a 1.X version or for 2.0 (anything that affects backward-compatibilty must wait for 2.0). Some of it is being worked on (like the UI library — I'm building one for script.aculo.us 2.0). Some of it is a matter of opinion. Keith and I will have to disagree on the trying to make JavaScript feel like Ruby thing; the entire point of Prototype is that JavaScript and Ruby are so close in philosophy that we can borrow concepts from Ruby without having them feel tacked-on. And some of it, like the plugin ecosystem, is something we'd love to fix if we had the resources. Too often, open-source libraries are pitted against one another as though they were competitors in a marketplace. I honestly don't care who has the greatest market share — I care only that Prototype has enough mindshare to keep it viable (so that it can keep improving through patches, bug reports, and so on). So here's my answer: to become the library of choice, we'd probably have to change so much about ourselves that we'd be unrecognizable. I'm not interested in doing that. If that means we're a niche library, so be it — we'll be a niche library with purpose. But do remember that the niches themselves are quite large. In terms of market share, jQuery won because it is genuinely good, easy to learn, and easy to drop into any environment. But market share is just one way of measuring impact. The Dojo guys are the revered badasses of the JavaScript community even though Dojo has never been a dominant toolkit. Dean Edwards has a statue in the JavaScript pantheon even though none of his toolkits have seen widespread adoption. It's a big world and there's room for all of us. You can read more about this question at http://www.quora.com/What-must-Prototype-JS-do-to-become-the-library-of-choice Felix On Mar 15, 9:58 pm, greg g...@reservation-net.com wrote: I don't often post here, but I've been using Prototype extensively for the last 6 months. Not a day goes by when I don't say something to myself along the lines of Thank God for Prototype. Perhaps, had I started with J-Query, I'd have said the same thing about it - but I didn't, and I'd like to continue with Prototype. It could very well be the Prototype developers are: bored, busy, broke, out of ideas, or any combination. Maybe instead of just saying things like we'd like Prototype to be more popular and do more things in less space, and be more relevant, etc, someone should create a wish- list page, with a prominent 'Donate Here' button. I don't work for free and don't expect others to either. (I just checked and Prototype's web page does not have a donate button). Programmers all like a challenge, so if we as users can come up with concrete wishes for Prototype then perhaps the developers will take up the challenge. And, Thank God for Prototype! On Mar 14, 10:34 pm, Jason jwestbr...@gmail.com wrote: I agree and would like to see Prototype start returning to the forefront as the powerful JS library it is -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
[Proto-Scripty] Several posts (asynchronous) - could it be an issue?
Hello all, I have a web page to insert student's grades into a DB table. So, this is what I'm doing: 1 - A table is built dinamically with all the students names and one input for each other, which will be their grade; 2 - A submit button will call a function which will post all this data (student's ID and grade) into another page (insert_data.php), which will insert it into the DB and return a SUCCESS or FAILURE, for each one; 3 - As I can have a lot of students, the post is timing out (as the parameters variable is huge), so I'm doing one post for each student, instead of putting all the data into an array and posting only once. It works perfectly so far, but here's my question: As the calls to the second page (insert_data.php) are working like a asynchronous thread, can this page get confused with the variables it's receiving? I already did several tests into my test bed (which were all successful, as I said), but I'd like to be confident that this approach won't cause any issues in production, when I'll have much more student's grades to be inserted at the same time. I'm assuming something like a session is created for each post, which is making them to be received properly by insert_data.php, but, again, I just want to receive a final confirmation from anyone that may possible already worked on it. Please let me know if I wasn't clear and I can send more details and/ or snippet of the code. Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
[Proto-Scripty] Re: i didn't understand a thing about events
Hi,
Rather than
var element = event.element();
...try just using `this`, since `this` is guaranteed to be the element
that you assigned the handler to (the form) rather than a subordinate
element (which it may be because of event bubbling). Now, I would
expect `event.element()` on a `submit` event to return the form, but
there's no need for it in this case, just use `this`.
BTW, you can change this:
* * * *
$$('form').each
(
function(object)
{
Event.observe(object, submit, preventDoubleClick);
}
);
* * * *
to this:
* * * *
$$('form').invoke('observe', 'submit', preventDoubleClick);
* * * *
...and thereby avoid creating a bunch of unnecessary functions (not
that they were likely doing much harm).
HTH,
--
T.J. Crowder
Independent Software Engineer
tj / crowder software / com
www / crowder software / com
On Mar 15, 10:58 am, Vecchia Spugna vecchiaspu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone!
i would like to do script in this way:
Event.observe(window, load, function()
{
$$('form').each
(
function(object)
{
Event.observe(object, submit, preventDoubleClick);
}
);
});
function PreventDoubleClick(event)
{
var element = event.element();
submit_button = element.down(input[type='submit']); // This
doesn't work! $(this).down(input[type='submit'] doesn't work!
.//disable button and reenable it later..
}
So, what i don't understand is why the parameter looses its conception
of DOM under it. I can obtain the CORRECT result doing $
('myform').down(input[type='submit'])
what is the concept i am ignoring??
thank you very much
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Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Rails 3.1 - Prototype = WTF?
On 15 March 2011 18:49, Felix felix1...@gmail.com wrote: What must Prototype JS do to become the library of choice? PrototypeJS _is_ my library of choice. Job done! Well done PrototypeJS Core-Devs. And you can quote me on that! Ha. I wonder how much I'd have to pay so that I could get ... ProtoypeJS is Richard Quadling's library of choice. Make it yours today! on the front page. I've got chocolate and beer. Probably can also get chocolate flavoured beer if necessary! Richard. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: News Items List
Just a hunch, but see if your page is valid at http://
validator.w3.org. Also, check to see if you removed padding from the
UL and the LI and margin from the LI. Although, if it looks correct to
you without the script, then I'm not sure why that could be it.
Walter
On Mar 16, 2011, at 6:56 AM, PartisanEntity wrote:
Hi again,
Now this time I cleared the cache before posting here.
My list looks as follows:
ul
lia href=#Link/a/li
lia href=#Link/a/li
/ul
Using CSS I have removed the list-style-type as well as any indenting.
In Firefox it works.
In IE8 however there is a left indent of at least 10px.
Strangely enough this indent only appears when I link to the .js file
in the head of the document. Without the javascript, there is no
indent in IE8.
Does this indent have something to do with the JavaScript?
On Mar 15, 11:43 am, PartisanEntity partisanent...@gmail.com wrote:
You guys are going to kill me.
I cleared the browser cache, and it's working in IE8 too, I'm so
sorry
for wasting your time :)
On Mar 15, 11:02 am, PartisanEntity partisanent...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry that was just a typo from me.
It is document.observe...
On Mar 15, 10:49 am, David Behler d.beh...@gmail.com wrote:
You might wanna try
document.observe();
instead of
document.observer();
David
Am 15.03.2011 10:34, schrieb PartisanEntity:
Sorry just to clarify:
Line 3 Char3 is the first line of your function. So it's the line
starting with: document.observer(.
On Mar 15, 10:04 am, PartisanEntitypartisanent...@gmail.com
wrote:
The link is currently behind a firewall so I can't post it. But
here
is what IE says:
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1;
Trident/
4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR
3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR
3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8)
Timestamp: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:01:36 UTC
Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 3
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI:http://www.test.com/_includes/newseffect/slideeffect.js
On Mar 14, 5:46 pm, Walter Lee Daviswa...@wdstudio.com wrote:
And you also loaded Prototype and Scriptaculous before that,
in that
order, right? Can you post a link? I have IE8 with a debugger
enabled
here on a VM, I could see if any errors suggest themselves.
Walter
On Mar 14, 2011, at 12:20 PM, PartisanEntity wrote:
The list is displayed in its entirety without animations.
It's almost as if the JavaScript it being ignored completely
in IE8.
I pasted your JavaScript into a file which I called
newslist.js.
I linked to it in the head section of my html file like so:
script type=text/javascript src=http://www.test.com/_includes/
newsbox/newslist.js/script
On Mar 14, 3:43 pm, Walter Lee Daviswa...@wdstudio.com
wrote:
No, but please define doesn't work. Does the animation fail,
does the
text not change...?
Walter
On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:34 AM, PartisanEntity wrote:
Hi Walter,
Thanks so much for this. It is working perfectly.
There is only one issue I am having:
While it works in Firefox and Safari, I tried using IE8 and
noticed
that it works on one computer, but not on another.
Do you have any experiences with this script and IE8,
anything to
watch out for?
Thanks!
On Mar 12, 5:02 pm, Walter Lee Daviswa...@wdstudio.com
wrote:
Here's a cut-down version of the code generated by my
NewsCycle
plug-
in for Softpress Freeway.
document.observe('dom:loaded',function(){
var newsSource = $('yourListId');
var delayBetweenItems = 3;
var effectSpeed = 0.6;
var tag =
newsSource.firstDescendant().tagName.toLowerCase();
var data =
newsSource.select(tag).invoke('hide').pluck('innerHTML');
var news = newsSource.down(tag).show();
var index = 0;
var newsCycle = function(){
index = (++index= data.length ? 0 : index)
new Effect.Fade(news,{
delay:delayBetweenItems,
duration:effectSpeed,
afterFinish:function(){
new Effect.BlindDown(news,{
duration:effectSpeed,
beforeStart:function(){
news.update(data[index]);
},
afterFinish:newsCycle
});
}
});
};
newsCycle();
});
You need prototype and scriptaculous effects in the page
first,
obviously, and you need to fill in the id of your list. My
plug-in
has
extra code to make it list agnostic, so you could
simplify this a
lot if you knew that your effect was only ever being
applied to a
list. You could also use this as written on a DIV with a
bunch of P
tags in it, or a DIV with a bunch of DIVs in it -- there's
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Several posts (asynchronous) - could it be an issue?
On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:04 PM, DanielMerliMorais wrote: I'm assuming something like a session is created for each post, which is making them to be received properly by insert_data.php, but, again, I just want to receive a final confirmation from anyone that may possible already worked on it. It's not a session, it's an HTTP request. Because you've bundled together the student ID and the grade in one request, each POST is atomic, and will be accepted by the Web server and your application server as a coherent unit. This should scale fine. Although I'm curious how many such pairs you put into a test page and had the request time out. I thought a POST was pretty much limitless -- if you're using PHP, there's some settings to tweak in your php.ini to up the maximum post size and processing time to heroic levels. I have a form where people can upload video files -- multiple video files -- using PHP. I don't think grades are in the same universe. Walter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: IE stack overflow
Every time that I have had a stack overflow its been because of a continuous, recursive call (same function gets continually called inside a loop until there is no more room on the stack to make another call (stack gets depleted hence the stack overflow)). On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Walter Lee Davis wa...@wdstudio.comwrote: Which lightbox, and which version of Prototype? This error means that you're asking IE to do something (usually) that's part of the extended Prototype canon, but you're asking it on an object which has not been extended by Prototype yet. Normal JavaScript engines don't need this bit of coddling -- adding a method to the prototype of one element adds it to all of them. But IE doesn't follow those rules, so each element that you act on needs to be passed through a function which explicitly copies all of the Prototype.js methods into it before it can be used. The difference between your code working and not will be subtle, as in the difference between $(element) and element. Walter On Mar 15, 2011, at 9:33 PM, The Dark Lord wrote: ok, well as i said i was not a javascript guru, but i think i may have found the issue after going through the IE debugger... it appears that lightbox that i'm using is causing the issue with an endless loop or something which is causing the stack overflow. and it is the reason for the handler not defined... when i got rid of lightbox all the issues went away. I don't know enough about javascript to figure out how to make it work properly but i am smart enough to get rid of something that is broke. So no more lightbox. I can prolly make me a simple modal window for my needs... if not, i will just go the old fashion way of doing things :( anyways, if anyone wants to look into what i found i can post more information about such as the lines i found the errors on. thanks for your time guys/gals -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Redrawing Autocomplete Field
I finally figured out my issue. I was being bitten by the fact that evalScripts evals scripts in the local scope to the prototype object. This was fine when my script was loaded from the start, but if that script was drawn to the page via an AJAX call it would get executed in the wrong scope and all weird things would start happening. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:59 PM, joe t. thooke...@gmail.com wrote: When the Autocompleter is initialized, the options are set as such: ... this.options.minChars = this.options.minChars || 1; ... Your 0 evaluates as false-ish, so trips over to 1. i'm pretty sure the reason for requiring at least 1 character in the lookup string is that the result list attempts to highlight the matching string pattern in bold, so when that string is empty, it could cause problems. Mostly that's a guess, but that line in the Autocompleter.baseInitialize is why you can't get a list on empty - it's not actually using your 0. As for why it generates a request on the empty string...i believe that's being triggered by the onKeyPress handler. It's intended to handle key navigation for the INPUT vs. the results list. Since it doesn't trap DELETE or BACKSPACE, it simply less their events pass through the handling down to this section: this.changed = true; this.hasFocus = true; if(this.observer) clearTimeout(this.observer); this.observer = setTimeout(this.onObserverEvent.bind(this), this.options.frequency*1000); It tells other methods that the value has changed, has focus, and resets a timer to call the next Ajax request. Since you're handling empty strings on your server side, you see a successful round-trip AJAX request. But Autocompleter doesn't do anything with the result per the reason above. You'd have to write an override function of some sort, and make sure that the empty string doesn't harm other areas of the Autocompleter class. However, i recommend that you note to your user they can use some special character (usually *) to search all, then handle the * on the server side. -joe t. On Mar 15, 12:58 pm, pipplo joe.kos...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I've done some more debug. The autocomplete text box works still. But it doesn't seem to work with 0 chars. I can see when the user clicks in the text box a request is generated, and a response is generated. I can use the chrome debugger to see that the response is as expected. The AJAX request seems to just not render the HTML when the number of chars is 0, even though it does all the work to generate a request and parse the response. As soon as I type a character I get the expected auto-complete results displayed. When I backspace back to 0 chars it doesn't display anything, but it still does the AJAX request. There must be a place in prototype.js where there is a decision to render the html or not? I can't seem to find it. So I'm just looking for some hints on why that wouldn't happen sometimes.. On Mar 14, 11:27 am, pipplo joe.kos...@gmail.com wrote: I have a weird bug that I'm having trouble debugging. I am using Rails but I think the issue is in the javascript handling somewhere. I have a div with a form and autocomplete div id=form form info autocomplete box /form /div I have the options set so that when the user clicks in the auto- complete they get an initial list (minChars = 0) When the user types a user name in the autocomplete and selects one of the drop down options I generate a request via Ajax and render the form again without the autocomplete. The user can then click 'remove' to remove the user info and re-draw the autocomplete box. After the re-draw the minChars = 0 doesn't work. Whenever I click in the box I see a request generated to my controller, and I return the correct information but it doesn't get rendered into HTML and I dont see a drop down. If the user types a letter or name then the dropdown lits does show up, but the initial ajax request never gets reflected. I assume there is some state variable that thinks the text box hasn't changed value or something which is preventing actually rendering the HTML returned by Rails. I hope that makes sense. Any ideas? P.S. My current workaround is to just hide the autocomplete field and not render it empty. This works but won't be usable in other parts of my site. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us
[Proto-Scripty] Re: Several posts (asynchronous) - could it be an issue?
Thanks a lot, this is exaclty what I was expecting. Just answering your question, I said student's ID and grade just to simplify the question, but actually I have student's ID, a grade for each question (1 - N questions) and a comment (text) for each question. As an example, if I have a 5 questions test, and 100 students, I would need to post 100*(5 (grades) + 5 (comments) + 1 (student's ID)) variables. Thanks again! On 16 mar, 10:01, Walter Lee Davis wa...@wdstudio.com wrote: On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:04 PM, DanielMerliMorais wrote: I'm assuming something like a session is created for each post, which is making them to be received properly by insert_data.php, but, again, I just want to receive a final confirmation from anyone that may possible already worked on it. It's not a session, it's an HTTP request. Because you've bundled together the student ID and the grade in one request, each POST is atomic, and will be accepted by the Web server and your application server as a coherent unit. This should scale fine. Although I'm curious how many such pairs you put into a test page and had the request time out. I thought a POST was pretty much limitless -- if you're using PHP, there's some settings to tweak in your php.ini to up the maximum post size and processing time to heroic levels. I have a form where people can upload video files -- multiple video files -- using PHP. I don't think grades are in the same universe. Walter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
[Proto-Scripty] Re: Rails 3.1 - Prototype = WTF?
Excellent. Thanks for providing that quote. j On Mar 15, 2:49 pm, Felix felix1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I found this answer(by andrew dupont) in quora to a question about the prototype library. Question was What must Prototype JS do to become the library of choice?Edit Once Prototype JS was very popular until jQuery was released and became very popular. What are the things you feel Prototype JS must do in order to become the library of choice?. Answer by Andrew Dupont. I'm the co-maintainer of Prototype. I don't speak for Tobie (my fellow co-maintainer) or Sam (who created Prototype), but here's what I feel: In recent years, Prototype has been starved for development resources. Unlike jQuery, nobody's working on it full-time; I work on it more than anyone else, but I've got a full-time job as well. On one hand, we're genuinely out of new areas to tackle and are looking more toward a reimagining of the existing API than toward adding large new features; on the other hand, there's a definite lack of polish, and I hope to address that in subsequent releases. Where would I improve Prototype? Well, let's start with Keith's list. About half of it is stuff that we've got planned, whether for a 1.X version or for 2.0 (anything that affects backward-compatibilty must wait for 2.0). Some of it is being worked on (like the UI library — I'm building one for script.aculo.us 2.0). Some of it is a matter of opinion. Keith and I will have to disagree on the trying to make JavaScript feel like Ruby thing; the entire point of Prototype is that JavaScript and Ruby are so close in philosophy that we can borrow concepts from Ruby without having them feel tacked-on. And some of it, like the plugin ecosystem, is something we'd love to fix if we had the resources. Too often, open-source libraries are pitted against one another as though they were competitors in a marketplace. I honestly don't care who has the greatest market share — I care only that Prototype has enough mindshare to keep it viable (so that it can keep improving through patches, bug reports, and so on). So here's my answer: to become the library of choice, we'd probably have to change so much about ourselves that we'd be unrecognizable. I'm not interested in doing that. If that means we're a niche library, so be it — we'll be a niche library with purpose. But do remember that the niches themselves are quite large. In terms of market share, jQuery won because it is genuinely good, easy to learn, and easy to drop into any environment. But market share is just one way of measuring impact. The Dojo guys are the revered badasses of the JavaScript community even though Dojo has never been a dominant toolkit. Dean Edwards has a statue in the JavaScript pantheon even though none of his toolkits have seen widespread adoption. It's a big world and there's room for all of us. You can read more about this question athttp://www.quora.com/What-must-Prototype-JS-do-to-become-the-library-... Felix On Mar 15, 9:58 pm, greg g...@reservation-net.com wrote: I don't often post here, but I've been using Prototype extensively for the last 6 months. Not a day goes by when I don't say something to myself along the lines of Thank God for Prototype. Perhaps, had I started with J-Query, I'd have said the same thing about it - but I didn't, and I'd like to continue with Prototype. It could very well be the Prototype developers are: bored, busy, broke, out of ideas, or any combination. Maybe instead of just saying things like we'd like Prototype to be more popular and do more things in less space, and be more relevant, etc, someone should create a wish- list page, with a prominent 'Donate Here' button. I don't work for free and don't expect others to either. (I just checked and Prototype's web page does not have a donate button). Programmers all like a challenge, so if we as users can come up with concrete wishes for Prototype then perhaps the developers will take up the challenge. And, Thank God for Prototype! On Mar 14, 10:34 pm, Jason jwestbr...@gmail.com wrote: I agree and would like to see Prototype start returning to the forefront as the powerful JS library it is -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
