After reading Avoiding Bloat in Widgets I’m pondering a re-write of Edit In Place in a similar style so that something like Script.aculo.us could be optionally used to supply transitional effects. So those that are looking for a smoother looking Edit In Place could have it, while not forcing the extra weight on those who don’t want it.
There are a number of other things that I’d like to get hammered out in the Edit In Place code as well. I’m hoping to resume work on it after the new year.
Javascript is starting to remind me of the Perl slogan, “There’s more than one way to do it”.
December 30th, 2006 at 4:07 am Andrew
Hi!
Your “Edit In Place” component is really great! :)
I’d very much like to see a rewrite to something that makes use of the script.aculo.us library!
Thanks for your good work!
January 20th, 2007 at 4:01 pm On Influence and Automation
2007 Please Bring on the new Editors…
One of my predictions for 2007 is a new editor for the web with ‘edit in place’ functionality. I love the idea of edit in place… rather than logging in through a totally separate administration, a user can simply start typing and bui…