Feedback on JSPopupPlugin

-- SvenDowideit - 07 May 2006

Inspiration: http://blogus.xilinus.com/pages/javawin with advanced pop-up windows.

Question: What is the fallback if javascript is off?

As a next step it would be nice to serve dynamic content to a given html element on the page:

• a div/span with id
• "after": create a div/span after a given html element
• "before": create a div/span before a given html element

-- ArthurClemens - 07 May 2006

Arthur, can you give a few use cases? Actually, I've done an experiment like this, and the increase in server load due to TWiki's architecture make sending down sections of a topic, and then assembly on the browser side very very undesirable at the moment.

• Undesirable for the user or for the system? It's quite commmon now to see a circular "progress" animation to indicate loading. In most cases you want editing to take place in the page itself, not in a popup window. -- ArthurClemens - 08 May 2006

WRT fallback for non-javascript, can you give me some advise? what would you expect to happen? I presume that for the rest/delayed eval ones, it becomes a normal link, and for the popup TML, its in page, but once i get going, i'm not sure if this will hold.

• Right, a popup will lead to a normal page with no js. Other kinds of interaction need to be looked at per case. -- ArthurClemens - 08 May 2006

Importantly, the Plugin perl code needs to know if the browser is running JS, so that it can output different HTML - so we really could do with more advanced browser detection and skin code.

• You can place an alternative call in <noscript> -- ArthurClemens - 08 May 2006

-- SvenDowideit - 08 May 2006

Hi, the plugin topic references DojoToolkitContrib and InlineEditPlugin, who both don't seem to exist on twiki.org.

I imagine those being available on SVN? Will they be published soon (ie should I wait?)

-- JosMaccabiani - 17 May 2006

new update to use YahooUserInterfaceContrib more, and updating the DEPENDANCIES listed in the topic - they were in other places in the package, and i missed that.

Dojo and inlineEdit are in svn only, mostly because i'm making fundamental changes every time i touch InlineEdit? , and it currently loses any xml tags in your topic source. I've been working on browser support (mosly Safari), but the xml tags are the last major change needed before i publish it.. (though the look and feel need work too)

-- SvenDowideit - 08 Nov 2006

When upgrading to the newest YUI (version 2.5.2) this plugin stops working for popups that load content from a url. Took me a while to figure out that the YUI js needed to be loaded in a different order. This is fixed by editing ./templates/jspopupplugin.javascript.tmpl:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="%PLUGINPUBURL%/json.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="%PUBURL%/TWiki/YahooUserInterfaceContrib/build/yahoo/yahoo-min.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="%PUBURL%/TWiki/YahooUserInterfaceContrib/build/event/event-min.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="%PUBURL%/TWiki/YahooUserInterfaceContrib/build/connection/connection-min.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="%PUBURL%/TWiki/YahooUserInterfaceContrib/build/dom/dom-min.js"></script>
...

I haven't really explored why this is, but with the original order the scripts were loaded, javascript errors showed up during initialization. Why use 2.5.2? For me, this fixed a few issues, e.g. the popup windows weren't being resized correctly, and JSCalendar within a popup didn't work correctly. Of course, a YUI calendar plugin would be nice as well...

-- AminShehata - 16 Jun 2008

nice catch Amin - I was just wondering about upgrading YahooUIContrib? , even though I've pretty much switched to dojo.

-- SvenDowideit - 16 Jun 2008

Can someone provide addition information about "CPAN Dependency: JSON". What is the dependency? What doesn't work if JSON isn't installed?

-- VickiBrown - 28 Jul 2008

I have no idea why JSON is listed as a dependancy. removing it now..

Amin thanks for the fix - its in the version i just uploaded too.

-- SvenDowideit - 16 Aug 2008