NYCPHP Meetup

[Ken Robinson]

At 05:20 PM 3/2/2007, Rolan Yang wrote:

>All this was a result of some twisted desire to make table rows 
>drag+drop resortable with dom/javascript magic.
>
>After all the CSS quirks were addressed, I discovered that the 
>scriptaculous drag+drop functions would slow down or  lock up the 
>browser when there were too many elements to sortable. Ugh. Now, I'm 
>working on writing my own leaner drag and drop script which will 
>hopefully run more quickly. They say what doesn't kill you makes you 
>stronger. I'm not sure if I am any stronger, but I did lose a few 
>handfuls of hair in the process.

You might want to look at the Drag & Drop module of the Yahoo User 
Interface libraries <http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/dragdrop/>. I've 
never used this feature, so I can't tell you if you will run into the 
same problems, but it might be worth a look.

Ken