[OGo-Discuss] Re: DHTML/XUL/AJAX

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> On Jan 21, 2007, at 18:57, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > We aren't doing anything ridiculously fancy;  mostly
> > pop-up / pop-down menus, auto-complete fields, and live forms (where
> > select boxed fill in based upon other entries in the form, etc...).
> > This isn't radical stuff but it provides a *HUGE* improvement in
> > usability.
> I'm quite interested in reliable pop-up / pull-down menus. So if  
> thats opensource, it would be quite nice to have it someplace for  
> incorporation into SOPE/JOPE ;-)

All our current AJAX / JavaScript stuff is now using MooTools.  

http://mootools.net/

Out web-guy says it is by far the easiest to use of the various toolsets
he has tried.  Our web development is using PHP but the bridge between
MooTools and the environment is JSON.  We really have no Javascript
compatibility issues between FF & IE;  just have to do CSS tweaks to get
it working on both - but so far have been able to do everything without
separate versions of CSS.

Unfortunately AJAX-ness can't be pictured, but to give some idea...
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_0sb385m (calendar)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_2qshhfd (enterprise)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_4dpzjmz (contact)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_6dzn3rg (contact edit)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_8c225bq (search result)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_12gqn63p (calendar event view)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_14zrg6zm (business data)

The AJAX calendar demo can still be played with at
http://www.mormail.com/calendar  (will be taking that down soon).

Our lone web developer was able to bang that together, and more that
can't be seen, in a couple of months.