hi,
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com wrote:
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.
Thats what i was trying to do all these days, figuring out the ways to implement what i suggested with minimal changes to the native code and i was successful. I was, however unable to create the patch (using git) but i'll attach the modified code files as an attachment in 2 to 3 days,( if I am still unable to use git, i am still trying to figure out the problem) and you can have a look at it and then make the decision :).
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.
The first option [from config file] will disable AJAX permanently and the second one will disable it for just a given session. I will suggest that you take a look at the modified code because that will make the functionality clearer. I think i am not able to explain properly.
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...
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