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Fivestar is getting loads of new features very soon. Two of the most common problems will be solved in the next release: - Fivestar now can display the current average by default, with user's rating underneath. - Fivestar now can display when submitting comments, making reviews…

A follow-up to yesterday's video on Drag and Drop tables. The new version combines the new dragtable.js with a special blocks.js file. The dragtable.js (320 lines) handles reordering of weights and matching regions with their siblings, as well as the actual drag and drop. The…

Not too long ago the AHAH patches went into Drupal core. While I'm thrilled with their inclusion, we can push Drupal's interface further with the addition of drag and drop, eliminating the visible weights system. Read more about it in the issue queue. See the patch for Drupal 6:…

Tonight Jared Bitner (now working at SonyBMG), his friend Dave, and I were looking for entertainment in New York City. Typically when attempting to "just do what every comes along" does yield much entertainment, but contrary to to the usual experience we were in the middle of…

So... today I put in effort into expanding the now committed AHAH Forms API to extend to all form elements. This means all kinds of effortless page updating on text area changes, radio buttons... you name it. The first target: the blocks page! Does this seem useful or annoying…

Tinkering around with a jQuery enabled Drupal module today, I was trying to make an iFrame that continuously updated. I tried the typical meta-tags and window.location.refresh() javascript but I wasn't satisfied with constant progress bar on the page. An AJAX (or AHAH really)…