Been thinking about this a bit lately. We have a very lovely popup that we can put things in but right now all it's used for is modal popups of things and a few subsidiary information things.
It occurs to me we could use it for more, scenario depending - for example, the login button needn't necessarily take us to a full new page, we could show the login form with the popup. Or even sending PMs directly from the display view.
At least, that's the theory. Before I tackle this, I want to get a feel for whether it's worth the effort - since there's quite a bit to unravel to make this work.
Amongst other things, the event handling on the popup would need fixing (@Nao, this might be a job for you rather than me if we go down this road - right now, forms injected into #helf aren't actually accessible amongst other things), and some of the layout would need revisiting - for example the login page would need to not output its <we:cat> header if called AJAXively but it should output it if not called AJAXively, and stuff like that. Don't even get me started how messed up the send PM thing is!
We'd also have to make sure that these pages didn't themselves have a reqWin call, of course (popup of a popup == badness in a can)
I've attached a mash-up of what it might look like.[1]
It occurs to me we could use it for more, scenario depending - for example, the login button needn't necessarily take us to a full new page, we could show the login form with the popup. Or even sending PMs directly from the display view.
At least, that's the theory. Before I tackle this, I want to get a feel for whether it's worth the effort - since there's quite a bit to unravel to make this work.
Amongst other things, the event handling on the popup would need fixing (@Nao, this might be a job for you rather than me if we go down this road - right now, forms injected into #helf aren't actually accessible amongst other things), and some of the layout would need revisiting - for example the login page would need to not output its <we:cat> header if called AJAXively but it should output it if not called AJAXively, and stuff like that. Don't even get me started how messed up the send PM thing is!
We'd also have to make sure that these pages didn't themselves have a reqWin call, of course (popup of a popup == badness in a can)
I've attached a mash-up of what it might look like.[1]
| 1. | The missing header issue is not just on Opera, it's all browsers. Something about the way we:cat is styled is broken but I don't know what it is off hand. But it wouldn't look right even if it weren't transparent. |
