[Mapbender-dev] Replace popup Windows

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Melchior,

that's surely a very good idea! Find my thoughts within your mail:


Melchior Moos schrieb:
> Hi Devs,
> I am going to implement a replacement for popup windows to mapbender so
> that we no longer run into problems with popup blockers.

as mentioned: absolutely the right decision IMHO.

> The idea is to
> display things like the featureinfo request results as a layer in the
> mapbender window.
>   

you added 2 jQuery plugins to the  wiki page, and I'd  suggest another 
candidate: jQuery UI (http://ui.jquery.com/, released yesterday by 
jQuery main developer John Resig and some other super talented 
Javascript/Jquery-Gurus). This plugin has been awaited for months by the 
community and it is actively developed.

I would strongly favor to go with this code... and with jQuery 1.2.1 as 
well.

Demos:
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/ui/demos/ui.dialog.html
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/ui/demos/ui.resizable.html

> I created a Wiki-Page with details and Demo screenshot:
> http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Popup_replacement
>
> What do you think?
>   

You propose to add jQuery to the mainframe? I'm +1 with that!

As for the problems with the json.js-script: Jquery 1.2.1. is working 
within a proper Javascript-namespace. Maybe that solves the described 
bug? I'm not sure... but this is another example that one should think 
twice when fuddling with prototypes of base types 
(http://web-graphics.com/2006/05/23/on-modifying-prototypes-of-javascript-built-ins/). 


If I remember correctly, there is a plugin for Jquery that does JSON 
conversion. I couldn't locate it right now, but will keep on searching

> regards,
> Melchior
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