Fluid Re-Orderer & uP3

[Colin Clark]

Eric,

Good question. Here's a quick overview of where we're at from the  
client side:

* Fluid 0.1 had a bug in it that prevented nested Reorderers from  
working happily together. Michelle D'Souza managed to commit a fix for  
this before the holidays, so this problem should now be resolved.

* We need to minimize our JavaScript footprint by removing the rest of  
Dojo from the Reorderer. We've had much better luck with jQuery, and  
it's generally a bit smaller. Should make for lighter download times  
for the portal. This work is about half-finished.

* Anastasia has an in-progress branch with part of the functionality  
required for this Fluid portlet layout manager. It's available here: https://source.fluidproject.org/svn/fluid/components/branches/FLUID-49/ 
  Anastasia's core change was to write a new layout handler that uses  
the layout JSON object sent down from the portal.

* We've got to make a couple of API changes to the layout handler to  
make this code a cleaner and simpler.

* Gary Thompson and Shaw-Han Liem are working on making this really  
easy to use. We've got a new design pattern that outlines some of the  
considerations, and they're working on new wireframes to ensure the  
interaction is simple and discoverable.

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Drag+and+Drop+-+Layout+Preview

We've been a bit behind schedule on this work, but it is now our top  
priority for the new year.

Have a great holiday,

Colin


On 21-Dec-07, at 1:11 PM, Eric Dalquist wrote:
> Anastasia, Jen,
>
> Just wondering what the status of looking into using the Fluid  
> reorderer for uPortal 3 is.
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org