Open source compatible Javascript snippets?
October 15th, 2004 by HenAnyone know of javascript bits that are usable in open source stuff?
Most of the stuff I see is licensed so that web-authors can use it, but not re-distribute it. Making it non-open source friendly.
http://www.mattkruse.com/ is an example. Another is http://www.softcomplex.com/. Very frustrating.
http://webfx.eae.net/ another.
http://www.dithered.com/javascript/ appears to be a brief shining light. SourceForge has 2000 open-source projects categorised as JavaScript, but nothing is leaping out yet. I especially like the GPL’d one based on a WebFX project.
October 15th, 2004 at 8:57 pm
The current feature-set is:
Sortable columns.
Highlightable columns (with user-chosen colour via colour picker).
Zebra striping.
http://blog.generationjava.com/~hen/test-table.html is a relatively up to date example. It’s since been integrated into my report-runner project.
A filter on the table is a todo.
October 16th, 2004 at 9:36 pm
Licence wise, active-widgets is GPL. Better than nothing, but would mean GPLing my system. I’d do that if it was sexy enough, but it feels clunkier than the ones I’ve found so far.
The IFRAME approach isn’t very nice and it seems like it’s submitting to the server each time you sort (though I think it’s just an odd paint/refresh style).
Still, the idea of accepting the learning curve of a widget system in JS is quite agreeable. Echo uses the MPL licence, which I need to double-check, but I think is quite acceptable. GPL of something that has to be distributed to be used is far too harsh.
Also very tempting is the Open Laszlo system that outputs Flash. A nice Flash table seems very nice, need to play with that.
(I’ve updated and bounced the DNS for generationjava.com and flamefew.net, see if that helps.)