Drag&drop Js With Ajax

[William GARCIA 0]

Hello,

During last week, I was studying the possibility to implement drag&drop on web pages with Javascript and CSS.

I don't know if it's help but I recommand you to see the AJAX Framework "Prototype".
It's a free js library wich can be use in commercial web applications : http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/.

Several frameworks have enrich the prototype framework : Rico (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/), Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/)

See you,

(Sorry if my english is a bit poor, I'm french...)

[Hercco 0]

Ajax is something that I should be paying more attention to. I know basically how it works but haven't bothered to try actual implementation. I guess something like this would be a good starting point.By the way, can you (or someone else) give me a link to a website using this Prototype? Or explain how it actually helps you? What can be done with it? Or would I be better off with going through the W3C school first?I'd be nice to have some Ajax discussion here.

[William GARCIA 0]

Ajax is something that I should be paying more attention to. I know basically how it works but haven't bothered to try actual implementation.

In reality, Ajax is not a big revolution : it's only the combinaison of old technologies such as CSS, JS. The revolution is more on the concept it self, the new mode to take part of these technologies to create user friendly web 2.0 applications. (it's my vision...i don't like the terms ajax or web 2.0 : it's too "hype" for things which exist since 10years)

Ajax is good in 2 ways :
- to accelerate form submissions or make actions without obligation to send a HTTP request to your web server (see XmlHttpRequest object for Ajax).
- to design pretty interfaces : drap&drop, hide part of web pages, create animations with images, text, assist users with contextual information,....

I guess something like this would be a good starting point.

Exactly : Prototype is a good starting point to learn Ajax. You can see also the "Yahoo! User Interface Library" at https://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ or ZK Framework http://www.zkoss.org/

By the way, can you (or someone else) give me a link to a website using this Prototype? Or explain how it actually helps you? What can be done with it?

The Ajax Framework Rico use Prototype. In my society, we use Prototype to create dynamics menus. It's help me because it's a reliable and clean library JS..it's IE and Firefox complient. I need a single file to install prototype : prototype.js. I can do lot of things with minimal code, only by calling a few Prototype functions.

Or would I be better off with going through the W3C school first?

Sorry, I don't understand the question.. I don't speak fluently english

If interested, take look to these others examples / scripts :
http://www.netvibes.com/en
https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/
http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

For Java Developers,
- Echo2 Framework : http://echo.nextapp.com/site/
- Google Web Toolkit beta : http://www.gwtproject.org/?csw=1
Edited June 29, 2006 by William GARCIA (see edit history)

[iGuest 3]

I want make one module in my chat application that thing is that I want to refresh my page without reloading page so for that Please give me information for that in ajax with php.-question by Chandresh