Forgive me if these have already been spelled out and I missed it, but with Earnie's vision for a jquery_plugin module...
Is the jquery_plugin module alerting users to updates of the JQuery plugins (that they would manually download (hopefully look at) and then upload)?
Is there any automated connection between the jquery_plugin module and modules that require the plug-ins or are modules that require JQuery plugins expected to check to see if the plugin are in the files/jquery/ directory and alert the site's admin to use jquery_plugin to upload the plugin if it's not there?
- Kevin
On 9/14/07, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Quoting Jeff Eaton <jeff@viapositiva.net>:
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Frando wrote:
>
>> I agree of course. What makes me wonder, though, don't we in Drupal 6
>> already include a javascript file in every request which is written by
>> Drupal to the filesystem via the Javascript aggregator/compressor?
>>
>> Isn't that exactly the same as allowing Drupal to save downloaded jQuery
>> plugins in the file directory (not that I think this is good idea anyway)?
>
> The difference is that the JS files that make up that aggregated JS
> file were all downloaded manually by an administrator and installed,
> not auto-downloaded from a remote server and installed by a 'smart'
> module.
>
Ok, I've gone back and reread parts of this thread. Let's put the
argument against automating the jQuery plugin scripts behind us because
it has been expressed and everyone understands that it is a bad idea.
Now let us discuss: the administrator is given the option in the
jquery_plugin module to upload his jQuery plugin. The jquery_plugin
module writes the uploaded file to files/jquery/ directory. The
jquery_plugin module then serves the client visiting the site those
files.
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