More activeRenderer Updates
Joao Prado Maia, who, when he is not outlining, addresses another of my pet fixations, pointed out that "whenever you scroll down on the page with the outlines and click on a node to be collapsed, the browser actually makes the page go up to the top again."
He came up with the solution of replacing the anchor around the wedge gifs with something like <a href="javascript:void(null);" onClick="doSomethingHere();">link</a>.
I've updated the activeRenderer package with something a little simpler: <a href="javascript:doSomethingHere();">link</a>. It has the drawback of modifying the browser's status bar though.
Shawn Sutherland made me rethink my previous opinion about web browsers not being good enough to edit outlines.
I won't link to his demo page, since he specifically asked me not to (tease :-), but he is pretty close to having a for real, sharable, web outliner using mySQL, PHP, and a clever use of cookies.
I hope he will abstract the database layer, and support XML file formats, such as OPML, or Aaron Straup Cope's OTLML.
7:32:19 PM Google It!
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