Re: can Wonder-Ajax be table-friendly?

Hi Ray,

to ease the pain of doing layout without tables, you can try css grid
frameworks like "bootstrap" (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
Now for intense ajax stuff with dozens of AUC, I would not use Wonder and
use pure JS stuff.

Cheers,

Alex

2012/7/15 Ray Kiddy <[email protected]>

>
> Hey -
>
> I am trying to use some of the simpler Ajax components in an application.
> It is working fairly well, so far, when I do small things. I am having
> issues, though.
>
> I use tables in my pages. Several of the Ajax components I have tried will
> do bizarre things when they have table elements in their content. In
> general, if I keep an Ajax thing completely inside a TD, then it works, but
> this is leading to some odd looking pages. You get a nice looking table of
> things and you click an "add" button and one of the cells gets a
> multi-element form inside it, with all sorts of strange stretching of the
> table ensuing.
>
> So, maybe tables are just to un-cool and too "last millennium" to work
> with Ajax elements?
>
> My co-worker says not to use tables and one can use DIVs instead. That may
> be true, but I have been using table tags for 20 years. Is there really no
> hope?
>
> Or is there a way to find out which Ajax elements _can_ interact with
> tables? Some of the js frameworks document the fact that they do not like
> tables, but is this true for all of them?
>
> Also, if anyone has suggestions for a new Ajax widget, I would appreciate
> it. I am going to use an Ajax widget from a 3rd-party company. I am sure
> that I can make it work in my app. But I am also sure that it will be ugly.
> But I do not think I grok the Wonder Ajax components well enough to do "the
> right thing". Here is a live demo of the widget I am wanting to use:
>
>
> http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxScheduler/sample_timeline.shtml
>
> Does anyone with better Wonder-Ajax-fu than I have a suggestion?
>
> thanx - ray
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Live Security Virtual Conference
> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and
> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions
> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
> _______________________________________________
> Wonder-disc mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wonder-disc
>

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and 
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions 
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware 
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/

_______________________________________________
Wonder-disc mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wonder-disc