Pebble gets Ajax'd

A couple of weeks ago, at QCon, Joe Walker and I started hacking some code into Pebble to provide comment previews via Ajax using DWR. We got quite some way with this and I've been finishing it off over the past few days. For good measure, I've thrown in some script.aculo.us. This is my first "real" bit of Ajax work and I've learnt a couple of important lessons.

  • It's really easy to break your web application for browsers that have JavaScript disabled.
  • JavaScript (the language) actually does scare me.
  • DWR and script.aculo.us make a fantastic combination.

I'm sure there will be a few tweaks here and there but it seems to work well. This will be in the next release so take a look and let me know what you think.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 29 March 2007 11:12:00 BST #


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Comment from Simon Brown on 29 March 2007 11:41:53 BST #
Here are the issues that are left to resolve.
  • Make Ajax previews work when the rich text editor is enabled.
  • Add the date/time to the Ajax preview.
  • Add the website to the Ajax preview.
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Comment from Simon Brown on 02 April 2007 22:34:27 BST #
These issues have been fixed and committed to Subversion.
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Comment from Anonymous on 03 April 2007 17:14:57 BST #
Did you consider using YUI? Between YUI and YUI-Ext (now just Ext actually), there has been a lot of exciting development recently. Ext is a full 3rd party Javascript Open source library that used to depend on YUI concretely but now can use other providers such as JQuery and Scriptaculous/Prototype. 1.0 Beta Examples: http://extjs.com/deploy/ext-1.0-beta1/docs/
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Re: Pebble gets Ajax'd

Comment from Simon Brown on 03 April 2007 17:22:10 BST #
I didn't. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.

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