Hi
Dne Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:55:13 +0530 Rohit Kalhans rohit.kalhans@gmail.com napsal(a):
The Idea behind enabling and disabling AJAX is that I am trying to develop it as a plug-in to the existing code, and the user can choose not to use this feature. Since PMA is also being used by many hosting sites apart from personal users, this may be up to the discretion of the service provider to use this plug-in. he may uninstall this plug-in by changing the cfg['advancedAjaxInterface'] to FALSE and the plug-in even it is installed will be inactive and if the user(service provider) feels like people should use this plug-in he just have to change the value of the above mentioned variable.
Let's forget about making plugin, you will really have to touch lot of code (or duplicate it), so it really can not be separated.
I have past experiences with Ajax and a few of them are not pretty gud. At times when using ajax, on a slow connection (or for a busy server), this becomes a problem more than a feature. this does not make AJAX intrusive but on the contrary provides a flexibility to either use or do not use this functionality (for the person who has installed PMA ) .
And that only answered part of the question, why do you need two configuration options?
Yes, it probably makes sense to have single option to disable AJAX.
This is for the user to make a choice whether or not he wants to use this feature or not. Say, he has to log in remotely, of from a different browser which does not support JAVASCRIPT. Even though this can be detected but what about old browsers (IE-6 etc which support javascript but are pretty slow with JavaScript and may bore the user to death :) ) and slow net-connections(say the user is using in prime-time). The user may need to just load a basic html view and this drop-down box provides him an option to do that. However the default view takes care of the the graceful degradation even if JavaScript is not enabled, (or present). Also if the user chooses to use the Advanced UI and if javascript is not present or enabled PMA will switch back to the normal view as it isnow with an alert to the user.
The same technique is being used by ZIMBRA http://www.zimbra.com/ and GMAIL.
Well I don't think this should be handled so specially. For now, use just setting in config file and user will be able to change it once per user preferences will be implemented (hopefully someone will finish it this GSoC).
Can a git repository be accessed through a http proxy like squid?
See http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Devel:Git#Accessing_Git_repository_from_behin...