[sf-perl] OffTopic: Any JavaScript programmers here?
David Scott
ds94103 at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 5 13:31:37 PDT 2008
Got it. If it were me, though, I'd reverse-engineer the HTML blob from
the list element and construct data objects *as if* I were getting data
from an Ajax call. At that point you can do what you want - all of DOM
scripting is open to you at that point.
Sometimes it's just plain easier to Do The Right Thing.
d
Rich Morin wrote:
> At 07:45 -0700 7/5/08, David Scott wrote:
>
>> You have to back off and ask yourself, why do you need a sorted
>> list in the first place? Aren't the list items coming to you
>> from some source, like a database query? ...
>>
>
> Good questions. Here are two responses:
>
> * In this case, the list is being generated by TWiki, a web
> templating system and CMS, thinly disguised as a wiki. It
> may be possible to get TWiki to re-order a given list, but
> it's not as flexible as executable code might be.
>
> * More generally, going back to the server and asking for a
> page refresh takes longer than running JS locally. Given
> that Vicki wants responsive, interactive control of the
> sort order, JS seems to be the only game in town.
>
>
> -r
>
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