Hi.

I've tried to come up with a method that will help the UI experience for the user through AJAX while degrading gracefully for non Javascript supporting browsers. So here it goes:

Ajaxifying the Browse table interface:

1) Currently clicking on the Delete icon causes a Javascript alert and then a page refresh takes place. Instead of refreshing, we can have a $(this).parent().parent().hide() called and at the same time, send a request to sql.php to make the deletion.

2) Currently clicking on the Edit icon causes a new page to open and changes must be made and saved there. We can associate the double click event of JQuery (.dblclick) with each of the fields inside a row so that when one would double click on a field in the row, all fields in the row turn into text boxes where changes can be made and once the focus is removed, the text boxes can become text fields again. Once a user decides to commit all changes, he would click the 'Submit Changes' button and he would receive the status update regarding the changes in the table.

3) A similar method can be employed to implement the Add row feature in Ajax.

These are the ideas that I could come up with right now. The best part about this is, one need not be concerned about majority of things while writing the Javascript code. One can see that if Javascript is disabled, the application would run how it would have normally run otherwise. Also, there is a team that is working on GUI improvement. Their work can be run independently of this and very minor changes would have to be made in order to accommodate the JQuery Ajax code into the improved application.

Please review this idea and let me know if you have any questions regarding the same.

Regards.

Meher Anand