Tag Archives: outlining

HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5

Oh hey, look! It’s another blog post—and this one is cross-posted on hacks.mozilla.com. I won’t say this is the start of a renewed blogging habit, but let’s see what happens. dl { margin-left: 2em; } dd { margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; } Drag and drop is one of [...]

XoxoOutliner and further outline addressing adventures

Revised the addressing code a bit, adding a few new kinds of addresses and getting ready to support sub-outline updates. That is, fetch a sub-branch of an outline and then later post a change to that sub-branch using the same address. Needs more thought – ie. what happens if things move between fetch [...]

XoxoOutliner and suboutline addressing

Here’s a feature I just hacked together for XoxoOutliner and plan to refine further: http://decafbad.com/2006/11/XoxoOutliner/outlines/README;text:Features?format=xoxo http://decafbad.com/2006/11/XoxoOutliner/outlines/README;id:native?format=xoxo http://decafbad.com/2006/11/XoxoOutliner/outlines/README;contains:Implement?format=xoxo Not entirely sure that this is how I want this to work, but these three URLs demonstrate the ability to address and fetch subsets of outlines. I’m hoping this will be a basis for selective transclusion in other outlines, or maybe [...]

Event Delegation based DHTML Drag and Drop?

So, as the urge to tinker rises again, I’ve started playing with YUI and cracked open some XoxoOutliner code again. One of the things that struck me like a bolt from the blue recently is the notion of event delegation. For the most part, I’ve treated event bubbling as a nuisance, except for [...]