[development] Activeselect - AJAX select boxes

Darrel O'Pry dopry at thing.net
Fri Mar 17 00:57:27 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 18:46 -0600, Derek Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:19:42 +1100  "Jeremy Epstein" wrote:
> 
> > (since the current method degrades well without JS).
> 
> pardon my general ignorance of AJAX and JS, but what does "degrade"
> mean in this context?  normally, i'd think "code that degrades" isn't
> something to cheer about. ;) if there's a quick 1 sentance
> explaination (or a link), i'd appreciate it.

Degrade, in this context means it works with javascript disabled.
Hope that helps.

> 
> otherwise, thanks for this contribution.  from what i can gather, this
> seems like it could help a lot of module UI's out there.
> 
> here's one: i'm thinking of event-enabled nodes... when you enter the
> start time, the end time could be automatically pre-filled to be some
> configurable event duration (e.g. 1 hour) into the future from the
> start time.  that'd be a nice feature.  don't know if this requires
> activeselect or not (see http://drupal.org/node/25618), but maybe
> activeselect would make it easier to do...
> 
> thanks,
> -derek (dww)
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