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06.20.2004 - Creating Hosted Favelets

A visitor to the site dropped me an email over the weekend expressing their interest in the favelets I've written and inquired as to whether or not I had ever written up any documentation on the techniques I employ when developing them. I responded that I had not, but that I thought that it would be a good idea for me to do so.

So, here goes - my first article on slayeroffice, discounting the one I wrote long ago detailing how to write a comment system without a database (long lost otherwise I'd link to it). Phew, what a miserable failure that was...not so much in concept as it was in practice. An interesting experiment at any rate. But I digress.

Creating Hosted Favelets goes over many of the common issues I have run into when writing applications of this sort, and gives tips on how to avoid them. It is by no means an end-all-be-all article on favelet creation and I will give you fair warning that I am in no way a skilled writer or even a very good teacher, but I hope that the information contained within will prove useful.

If there is anything you feel I left out, any question you feel is unanswered or there is anything you think I need to go into more detail on please let me know and I will certainly address it.

Comments

good article. I think hosted favelets can be very useful, although I have been unable to use your favelets due to a namespace conflict. I use init() as the initializing function on almost all of my pages. I suggest prefixing your functions with 'so_' (or something similar) to avoid these issues. you write some great utilities, I'd love to be able to use them with sites I've developed. keep up the good work.

-chris
Posted by chris on June 21, 2004 @ 4:09 pm

yeah - thats the advice i'm guilty of breaking. I made a note to myself last night to go through and make those changes.
Posted by Steve on June 21, 2004 @ 4:12 pm
Have been a long time fan of your scripts, great work Steve. One thing I keep wanting when you post a new favelet that uses one of your "modules" (like the suite) up in the left corner, is the ability to drag them around on the screen so that I can put it in a better location for whatever reason it may be. I even tried writing a favelet to allow me to add dragability to any given element, but I had to get back to my "real" work so it kind of got dropped. Anyway, I think that would be a great addition to those that use that module type concept.

Thanks again for providing these great scripts.
Posted by Aaron on June 21, 2004 @ 7:57 pm

Here's a draggable div link http://www.youngpup.net/2001/domdrag/
Posted by Andrew Wooldridge on June 23, 2004 @ 7:15 am

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