Comments on: Protowidget: Widget system on top of Prototype

By: Graham Brabham

Graham Brabham — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:02:27 +0000

My web guy has written some widgets which some people may find of use, I will get him to post the links here.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:20:22 +0000

thanks for sharing

By: SlackAlice

SlackAlice — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:21:11 +0000

Great coding, thanks for sharing it with us.

By: eco2you

eco2you — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:21:28 +0000

Cracking!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:46:36 +0000

Amazing!

This is one of your best posts! And, one of the best blogs i read!

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:13:24 +0000

great coding

By: suggs

suggs — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:36:34 +0000

Check out Western Construction and Development.

By: Jerome Black

Jerome Black — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:59:01 +0000

Good stuff. I used to be a webmaster back in 2001. Now i have other people dealing with this but things like this help.

By: bob gardner

bob gardner — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:17:16 +0000

interesting blog nice coding hope to use it soon

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:13:04 +0000

haha, when I stumbled accross your page I thought it was one of those pages that were trying to rank for ‘widgets’ in a large SEO competition some years ago, took a while for me to understand what you were talking about! Great stuff

By: Terry Laurenzo

Terry Laurenzo — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:03:20 +0000

I also forgot to mention that the presented color scheme for the accordion widget was derived from looking at the colors on the OpenRico widget. It’s not exact but it is close. I meant to attribute it to the OpenRico project but forgot. Apologies, and thanks for the color scheme!

By: Terry Laurenzo

Terry Laurenzo — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:55:06 +0000

I thought I’d provide a blurb about adding custom attributes and why I think it’s ok:
First, the current syntax of prefixing the attribute with ‘pw.’ is a placeholder until I get namespaced attributes working. The big culprit here is IE and its poor support for XHTML. I considered getting the relevant features to work is slightly more important in the short term than getting it to validate. And do recall that the ‘X’ in XHTML stands for eXstensible. It really isn’t my fault that the standards bodies didn’t think very hard about how to actually make those extensions validate within browsers. Schemas would have been nice, but in their absence, we can still extend XHTML. Getting it to validate is a headache, though.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:06:01 +0000

Its built off Prototype so it should be:

var Widget1 = $(‘Widget1′);

//use the framework guys, its there for a reason.

By: henrah

henrah — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:43:29 +0000

@Krzysztof:

> Widget1 just defined by id=â€Widget1â€³.

That’s a proprietary microsoft extension. What you should be doing is this:

Obviously that’s even clunkier, but at least it’s valid. I think the main problem here is that you have to use unique ids for every widget, a problem addressed in the linked article.

By: Dominic Mitchell

Dominic Mitchell — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:17:36 +0000

Adding attributes doesn’t have to be troublesome. That’s what namespaces are for. Hey presto, valid html again!

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:31:37 +0000

by the way.. great work on protowidget, I will have to try it out.

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:30:27 +0000

Lots of things may be a ‘nono’ but they serve to make life easier and are cross browser… css hacks are a ‘nono’ but are required for some. javascript eval() is considered a ‘nono’ but is required for some. blending javascript/php/markup should be a ‘nono’ but its done all the time… what about making a custom DTD that uses the custom attribs..

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:43:48 +0000

You Ajax guys are funny. Have you been drinking the stuff?

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:29:11 +0000

Heh! He stole our accordion widget styling! – which is based on prototype anyway ;)

I prefer a html / css avenue to widget creation – but these early prototypes show promise so will keep an eye on in the future!