[Phpmyadmin-devel] New navigation frame resize handler

[Tyron Madlener]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 15:39 +0300, Tyron Madlener wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 14:24 +0200, Herman van Rink wrote:
>> >> On 08/01/2011 01:34 AM, Rouslan Placella wrote:
>> >> > I rewrote the navigation frame resize handler and I'm looking for some
>> >> > feedback and opinions. The new handler keeps navigation frame width
>> >> > synchronised and there is an option to collapse the frame. I made a
>> >> > video [1] that showcases the functionality and there are a few words
>> >> > about it in my blog [2] and of course, it can be seen ion action on my
>> >> > demo site [3].
>> >>
>> >> Having it resizeable seems nice. But I'm not sure that the
>> >> synchronisation between tabs is useful.
>> >> When I would resize to fit some specific table names this does not mean
>> >> that I need the same space for an other tab where I might have a
>> >> different database.
>> > I was thinking of adding a configuration option to disable this.
>>
>> I agree with Herman, this feature seems rather like an inconvenience
>> than a feature to me. And this would be the very first
>> setting/configuration in phpMyAdmin that is synchronized - why does it
>> deserve that status? ;)
>
> Not sure what you are saying here... What status is there to deserve?
>
> Anyway, I meant a configuration setting for disabling this feature, not
> synchronising the actual setting. And the synchronisation of the frame
> widths occurs via a cookie, not via the pma configuration...
>
> But yeah, I see how you could label it a nuissance and I have no problem
> getting rid of the feature for synchronising widths across frames and
> reverting to the old, somewhat flawed, logic for handling the frame
> widths.

How about just adding your new code without cross frame sync?

>
>> >> And I'm not really a fan of polling, specially when it's just for this.
>> > Well, some browsers don't fire the onresize event for frames. Polling is
>> > the only reliable way here.
>
>
>
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