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From the author of Twilight Universe, he created at least 2 good plugins. Touched and Autosave.
Here from his Sack of Ajax, he points out why he chose to use his own library over sajax or dojo.
I’m silly to be trapped by my own contraints spending my whole night on a single library. Its time to for a change, I wanna create application as fast as ajax, there are better stuff to do.
[testing touched - is there touched for nested comments?]
My first attempt at creating a Wordpress for Sajax … failed.
Download it if you like but dont think it will work.
I failed to do understand how it works before jumping in to create a plugin. Serves me right. The design of sajax is such simple in a way you would include in every file rather than a plugin.
So much for my first attempt at creating a plugin.
Something different I always say about a developer’s blog and a diary aka storytelling blog is the content used in the communication.
Just an example, php exec the plugin used to run php code in posts
 is actually inspired by runphp in turn is a hacks/modification/improvement over Stevarino and Pascal’s Hack
Pretty cool. I shall use it for my "Live Items" soon.
These are ideas for AJAX.What ideas can be used for wordpress or its plugins? As perhaps mentioned before
AJAX plugins certainly do not appear in dreams. Current examples are
Now what is my idea? The answer is customising the presentation. A while before, desktopmod webby made a nice impression in my mind as each module/section of their webpage are like windows which u can minimise or close. Then I sure there are many implmentations done already like in brainjar or how popup menus are done in DHTML. I would like my blog to have lots of functions yet simple, without clusting the space (like now), if not it would look like some news site, portal or CMS. Example, shoutbox would take up someheight, so do Top posts, unread comments, calendar, whose online so on… I could use javascript to contract and expand them, but the catch is the browser would need to download all the content first. With ajax enabled, only when a section is click to be expanded, content will be pulled from the server, process any php if needed and displaying almost immediately on the page.Implementation wise, state of the expanded items can be stored in cookies. Content of each portion can be stored as javascript variables (lifetime of a request cycle), stored in cache (cookies), or made to refresh periodly. We now should have seen enough ideas of AJAX, more should be implemented. This shouldnt be too diffcult, I shall try to do this as my first plugin when I’m free sometime this week!
Where I can go from here
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