[Proto-Scripty] Re: Taboo Subject

2009-02-11 Thread Pete
Hi Alex, Going beyond progressive enhancement, I'd take Google's approach with products like Maps and Gmail as great examples of extremely rich interfaces that are also done very well as "basic html." The end result for them is, in these rather extreme cases, actually coding the application *twi

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Taboo Subject

2009-02-11 Thread Pete
ive. I gues you probably know that already, it's just that what you said sent some alarm bells ringing in my head! Good luck with your app, and maybe post back when you've made a decision with your thinking as to why? Best, Pete On Feb 11, 9:59 am, "Alex Mcauley" wrote: >

[Proto-Scripty] Re: prototype and image selection?

2009-01-19 Thread Pete Brown
I've never used it, but the input type="image" is for a submit button that uses an image. It seems like it would be bad practice to use more than one submit button for a form. I'd suggest using standard img elements with an onclick event that updates a hidden input element with a value you want to

[Proto-Scripty] Re: prototype and image selection?

2009-01-19 Thread Pete Brown
  > vanilla submits as long as they were named and IDd uniquely. > > Walter > > On Jan 18, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Pete Brown wrote: > > > t seems like it would be bad practice to use more > > than one submit button for a form. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[Proto-Scripty] Re: image load

2009-01-21 Thread Pete Brown
Try defining an onload event for the image that does what you need On Jan 21, 7:43 am, Stucture_Ulf wrote: > Hello! > > How do I check/read when an image is loaded ?. What I want to do is > that I want to wait to displaya div until the entire image is loaded. > Now, the div get's displayed as th

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Draggable and Droppable - Update Database (Very Close!)

2009-01-25 Thread Pete Brown
I'm not sure if your terminology is correct, but if you're actually referring to Draggables, you might check out the 'accept' property. http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/droppables If not, there are other solutions. On Jan 25, 12:41 pm, KaR wrote: > Hi, I actually figured it out, t

[Proto-Scripty] Re: prototype not working with rails 2.2.2 ?

2009-01-29 Thread Pete Brown
I'm not familiar with the Rails upgrade process for an app, but did the Prototype code get updated within your public directory? On Jan 29, 4:40 am, riky wrote: > Hi, > > i made an application using rails and prototype and all worked fine... > But today i upgraded rails to 2.2.2 and from that mo

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Need javascript gurus' opinion about good javascript editor/debugger.

2009-04-05 Thread Pete Brown
If there's any way you can develop and test locally you will save a TON of time. Depending on what server language you're using (PHP, Ruby, etc), you should be able to setup a pretty basic dev environment for testing the AJAX stuff. That way you won't need to upload any files to a server until you

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Feedback on a Mega Dropdown menu

2009-04-05 Thread Pete Brown
I'm sure there are pros and cons to doing a menu like that in Javascript, but all I can say is that I would ditch the fading effects. They are unnecessary and sort of annoying. On Apr 3, 5:53 pm, brad wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm new to this group and to prototype & script.aculo.us.  I've tried >