myfreefriend.org - creating the javascript windows framework

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Getting a little messy, but I have added a little more code that when a window is shown, goes through various container classes and resizes them.

html/css is chronically lacking the basic constructs that an X windows programmer would expect to see in this regard.

A DIV should have layout properties, like fromVert, leftEdge, attachRight and so on, properties that automatically control how things look at all sizes.

I think we are getting there now, but what the screenshots were not revealing is that windows that started off minimized were ending up with their contents squashed in some cases

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Had a good look around the bookshop earlier today.

The shelves are loaded with Javascript/Ajax books, and I am a big fan of books, my shelves are loaded with computing books Somehow though I came away empty handed, new tech like this generates loads of hot air and genuinely useful information still looks very thin on the ground.
I think what I am doing here already with the myfreefriends site is a long way ahead of what I have been reading.
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I now have a seemingly working set of functions to create "Wizards" with the type of Back/Next functionality that is sometimes quite useful. This should make the sign up dialogs quite nice
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Mutter mumble, the Wizard really is quite excellent, but with the new sign up code i have found some missing functionality in the xajax code that is solved by the new beta which is not available with the Joomla wrapper.

This is now a show stopper, there is no sensible way to hack around the missing function, so there is no choice but to slot in the xajax beta myself.
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Hmm, I have put in the upgrade and oddly some of the ajax is working, but the bulk is dead and unresponsive
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Solved that one, almost all the function calls have been renamed, and the system fails silently if you use an old style name
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