Re: Ajax fly-out menu
Re: Ajax fly-out menu
- Subject: Re: Ajax fly-out menu
- From: Benjamin Chew <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:03 -0700
Thanks for letting me know. I did manage to do what I mentioned in the last email. Time to do some testing with real world data!
Ben
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, John Ours
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On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Benjamin Chew wrote:
> Thanks for the insight. I think I'm still going to try it out and see how it works for me.
>
> How you did you get the AjaxUpdate to fire on mouseover? I've been fudging around with this for a couple of days now and I'm at the point where I'm writing my own Ajax component using bits of AjaxUpdateLink.
>
The project I did that on wasn't WO...I was using jQuery for ajax. I don't know offhand how to coerce the Wonder stuff into firing onmouseover.
> Ben
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM, John Ours <
email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Benjamin Chew wrote:
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> >
> > I've been down this road before. In practice the callback is too slow and the menu isn't really usable. IME if you have a hierarchy that's that big you're best to switch to another paradigm like a treeview.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Hmm... even if you're just requesting one sub-category at a time in a simple query?
> >
> > Ben
>
>
> Yep. It's not the time on the server that gets you, it's the round trip and it just made the menu feel to "sluggish" for my taste. Plus the callback is fired over and over as the user drags the mouse down the menu.
>
> I suppose you could pull it off by triggering the callback on click and using some clever loading graphics...or maybe loading the hierarchy one level ahead or something...just didn't work for me.
>
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