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Re: multiple dynamic text fields

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Op Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:36:23 -0700, schreef David Mark:

> On Mar 13, 4:08 pm, hipa <hipa.inva...@telenet.be> wrote:
>> Op Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:16:17 -0700, schreef David Mark:
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>> > On Mar 11, 9:55 am, hipa <hipa.inva...@telenet.be> wrote:
>> >> Op Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:19:46 +1100, schreef Jeff North:
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>> >> > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 18:46:34 +0000 (UTC), in comp.lang.javascript
>> >> > hipa <hipa.inva...@telenet.be>
>> >> > <jjdj6a$5e...@speranza.aioe.org> wrote:
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>> >> >>| Op Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:38:23 +1100, schreef Jeff North: | | > In
>> >> >>your getuser.php file remove all the fluff that is before <?php
>> >> >>and |
>> >> >>> after ?>
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>> >> >>| > See if that helps.
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>> >> >>| Still the same.
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>> >> > The only think left is there might be an error in the scriptpg.js
>> >> > file which is causing the non-execution of all the scripts on the
>> >> > page.
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>> >> I found the problem.
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>> > A problem.
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>> >> I tested it while adding text fields true javascript, that also
>> >> didn't work. That got me thinking.
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>> > There is no such thing as "true Javascript". If you want to
>> > pigeonhole scripts, use good/bad qualifiers (e.g. jQuery contains bad
>> > Javascript).
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>> Can you explain this one?
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>> >> Everytime I add a text field I need to append .autocomplete. When
>> >> the autocomplete gets set up when the page loads it will not work on
>> >> a text field that is dynamically added. So this is what I do.
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>> >> $("#addButton").click(function () {
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>> > document.getElementById('addButton').onclick = function() {
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>> Nothing happens when I click the button.
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> Sorry, I assumed you were further along.  You have to piece it all
> together:
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> document.getElementById('addButton').onclick = function() {
>    // Put the rest in here
> };
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Yes I know that, I looked over the closing parentheses at the end. Works 
now, thanks!

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>> > Feel free to write a wrapper for gEBI if you are worried about typing
>> > (shouldn't be). Will just slow things down, but not nearly to the
>> > extent that jQuery does. It's one function call vs. hundreds and
>> > function calls are expensive.
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>> How is that?
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> Because jQuery is very poorly written.  I recently posted some examples
> of this on the JSPerf site, pitting one-liner cross-browser functions
> vs. My Library (a four-year-old library) vs. jQuery. Unbelievably,
> jQuery was consistently 10-100 times slower at basic tasks.  Attaching
> listeners was particularly slow (not to mention awkward).  Not long
> after, they copied my concise on/off methods, but I doubt that syntactic
> sugar improved their performance any. :(
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> http://jsperf.com/browse/david-mark
> http://jsperf.com/adding-and-removing-listeners-part-2
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I'll take a look at this one, but have the feeling that you are far more 
advanced than me :-)

>> And why is jQuery so bad? I find the autocomplete function pretty handy
>> :-)
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> I don't believe that's a jQuery function. Alone, jQuery does little more
> than queries and "event normalization" (quotes indicate there's no
> "normal" for events like change).  Hell, they don't even allow for
> setting the - this - object without calling an additional "proxy"
> function. :(
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>> >>         $('#article' + counter + '').autocomplete('datapg.php?
>> >> mode=sqlarticle', {width: 200, max: 10});
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>> > You'd be better off with no widget at all as anything built atop
>> > jQuery is highly suspect (it's too slow, not cross-browser and has a
>> > terrible DOM abstraction layer). If that's unacceptable, hand this
>> > part off to somebody else (preferably not a jQuery enthusiast).
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>> Oh you explained it :-)
>> How would someone else do it. I could off course also just cut the
>> jQuery part.
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> Well, if you have thousands of rows that need to populate a dropdown of
> some sort, you will need something along the lines of an
> autocomplete/suggest.  Somebody more familiar with DOM scripting
> (particularly keyboard handling) should be able to bang one out in a day
> or two.

That sounds logical, when thousands of rows need to populate a dropdown. 
I kept this in mind, my db isn't very big. It can/will grow, but not to 
the extend of thousands and thousands of records. 


> A canned widget for jQuery is going to be hampered by jQuery and is
> likely to include lots of unneeded features as those projects aim to
> appeal to as many users as possible.  This is because of ego and a myth
> that the presence of lots of users ensures a bug-free script (all those
> eyes and all). :)
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>> >>         counter++;
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>> > That works. :)
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>> Thanks for the reply!
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> NP.

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multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-04 13:00 +0000
  Re: multiple dynamic text fields Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-05 14:33 +1100
    Re: multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-08 18:14 +0000
      Re: multiple dynamic text fields Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-09 17:38 +1100
        Re: multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-09 18:46 +0000
          Re: multiple dynamic text fields Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-10 17:19 +1100
            Re: multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-11 13:55 +0000
              Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 20:16 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-13 20:08 +0000
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 15:36 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-14 10:51 +1100
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 18:12 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 18:55 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-14 15:05 +1100
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 21:38 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 21:56 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 22:49 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-14 17:05 +1100
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 00:23 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 22:06 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-14 17:07 +1100
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 00:28 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 22:11 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-14 21:56 +0000
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 14:58 -0700
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields hipa <hipa.invalid@telenet.be> - 2012-03-15 06:27 +0000
                Re: multiple dynamic text fields David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 23:46 -0700

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