AlexH

I’ve been playing with OpenRICO’s cool Javascript libraries, and I’ve posted a demo of the drag and drop enhancements that I’ve added over the last couple of days.

A downloadable version is available as well.

Right now it’s not perfect because I’ve edited the rico.js file instead of extending the classes, although I’ve extended some of the classes.

A known bug is the highlighting sometimes is applied to the bottom element, while the DnD element is at the top. It gets added at the correct position though.

The enhancements over the stock drag and drop demo are that the dragged elements are also draggable so you can reorder things after the fact.

Planned enhancements are to deal with the colours properly rather than hardcoding them into the Javascript file itself.

After a few days of playing with SuSE 10, I’m very pleased with the new version, although I expected a high quality release from Novell.

The only nitpick is viewing PDFs, which seemed to be confused by the fact that there were 2 plugins that could handle them, Acrobat, and Dragonegg (which uses kpdf). I removed the libdragonegg.so from the Firefox plugin directory and it ‘fixed’ the problem. I’ll have to dig around on the OpenSuSE website to see if there are any bugfixes.

SuSE 10.0 Eval was release today! I’ve started a torrent, and hopefully it will be downloaded tomorrow morning. I’m looking forward to installing it in the new Dell desktop that arrived yesterday.