Rails spinoffs - Oct 2007 - cloning elements

Hi,

I will have to start on a fully-ajax project soon.
To make it easier to split off design to a design-team I want to try
an approach similar to the following:

The design team creates a single html document for the entire
application.
This document contains all elements that are needed for the
application.
Initially all elements are hidden and all "fields" are blank.
for example:

<div class="person">
  <span class="first_name"></span>
  <span class="last_name"></span>
</div>

Then when I need to display a person object(that I got using json)
somewhere, I would like to be able to make a copy of this element, and
apply a behavior to it using lowpro. The behavior will then fill in
the fields using the properties of the person object.

How can I clone an element (like the person class div in my example) ?

Does this seem like a good approach?

Thanks for any comments.
Mathijs


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On 10 Oct 2007, at 01:37, bluescreen303-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> I will have to start on a fully-ajax project soon.
> To make it easier to split off design to a design-team I want to try
> an approach similar to the following:
>
> The design team creates a single html document for the entire
> application.
> This document contains all elements that are needed for the
> application.
> Initially all elements are hidden and all "fields" are blank.
> for example:
>
> <div class="person">
>   <span class="first_name"></span>
>   <span class="last_name"></span>
> </div>
>
> Then when I need to display a person object(that I got using json)
> somewhere, I would like to be able to make a copy of this element, and
> apply a behavior to it using lowpro. The behavior will then fill in
> the fields using the properties of the person object.
>
> How can I clone an element (like the person class div in my example) ?
>
> Does this seem like a good approach?
Use Prototype''s Template functions instead: http:// 
www.prototypejs.org/api/template

Inject those in the page as needed instead of trying to clone  
existing elements. Do watch out for the drawbacks of a fully ajax  
application (i.e. no bookmarks, no back button, unless you use a  
state manager).

Best regards

Peter De Berdt


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On Oct 10, 4:21 pm, Peter De Berdt
<peter.de.be...-LPO8gxj9N8aZIoH1IeqzKA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On 10 Oct 2007, at 01:37,
bluescreen...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
[...]
> Use Prototype''s Template functions instead:
http://www.prototypejs.org/api/template
The example may need some work:

  // -> Multiply by 1024 to convert from megabytes to gigabytes.

:-)

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Rob


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