Re: [Krang-devel] Re: gratuitous JS changes

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Michael Peters wrote:

> Ok, here's a preliminary version that doesn't have everything and
> may still act funny in some places, but here it is.
>
> http://plusthree.com/~mpeters/komet-0.01.tar.gz

Very cool!

> + ajaxable forms (all POST without file inputs)
> + auto-complete fields for media, template and story search

These worked pretty well for me.  The whirly next to My Workspace is a
cute touch.  Problems I found (some of which you probably already know
about):

   - The "edit_mode" stuff gets confused and prompts about losing
     changes from non-edit screens.  For example, after creating a new
     site I clicked on New Story and was prompted.

   - ISEs cause a really bizarre animation - the error box appears and
     the rest of the form slides off the screen, including the Krang
     logo!

   - Trying to create a new story doesn't seem to work.  The error I
     get is pretty strange:

         Error executing run mode 'create': Can't call method
         "list_group_id" on an undefined value at
         /home/sam/krang-tests/krang/lib/Krang/ElementClass/CheckBoxGroup.pm
         line 97

     At first I though this couldn't be your fault, but after I removed
     komet and restart Krang it worked!  I'm using the Default set, if
     that helps.

   - I wonder how this will interact with publish (although I couldn't
     test it since I couldn't create stories).  Publish has a
     full-screen progress display that doesn't show the nav.

> + help windows are Ajax driven divs that "popup". This is much speedier than
>  having the browser open a new window, etc. And paves the way for some neat
>  effects for it.

This produced some very strange results, particularly when I clicked
on the Krang logo.  The whole page slid down the screen behind a blank
white box!

-sam