On Jan 27, 2008 1:52 AM, Akash Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin, > Isn't the drag and drop going to be added like the Tabs feature? > And sometime ago I heard someone saying that the docs are going to be out > in > a week. Is it ready?
The docs were published on friday ( http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference/ ) "drag" is not included in the spec, so there's no reference to implement against. ~Kevin > > On Jan 27, 2008 12:12 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you referring to dragging of gadgets around a container page, or > drag > > within a gadget? > > > > The former is implementation specific, and will probably never be in > > shindig. Deployments using shindig (such as igoogle) may support this > > functionality, but it's not part of shindig itself necessarily. Feel > free > > to > > submit a patch for the example container code that does this if you'd > > like. > > > > Drag and drop within gadgets is another story. iGoogle supported a > "drag" > > feature ( > http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference.html#Ref_Drag > > ), > > but it is not going to be a part of the spec ( > > http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference/). Instead, the best > > solution would be to use one of the many fine existing drag and drop > > libraries out there already (YUI, dojo, etc.). > > > > This doesn't preclude shindig from implementing the "drag" library in > the > > future, but at this point our efforts are around spec compliance and > > ensuring that it is flexible enough to be used by real sites that want > to > > use it. Since there is no formal spec for "drag" (other than trying to > > clone > > the existing igoogle implementation), it is being left out. > > > > ~Kevin > > > > On Jan 24, 2008 10:38 PM, Arun Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Is drag and drop of Google gadgets is possible in Shindig project(with > > out > > > using other tools like jQuery)? > > > > > > > > > -- > Akash Manohar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
