November 5, 2009
Javascript in Drupal 7
Kat Bailey has posted an excellent overview of the changes in javascript usage between Drupal 6 and 7. Particularly relevant is AHAH usage, which she sums up in Drupal 6 as follows: “AHAH forms make people want to jump out of the window of very tall buildings”!!! which is SOOOO true (I struggled for about a month to get an AHAH for working earlier this year…then figured out that AHAH doesn’t play nicely with CCK).
Also new: merlinofchaos has implemented an AJAX framework, and jQuery UI is in core. Plus there is the ability to use other libraries too, not just jQuery. Drupal 7 is gonna rock!
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