OT: how does the site do this

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Hi
At these sites: www.pageflakes.com and www.netvibes.com they
are able to
drag and drop sections of the screen around from one area to
another. Does
anyone know how they do this and have any pointers to
tutorials or 3rd party
components?
Thanks
Brendan
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Answer 1

RateTheBuilder wrote:
> Hi
>
> At these sites: www.pageflakes.com and www.netvibes.com
they are able to
> drag and drop sections of the screen around from one
area to another. Does
> anyone know how they do this and have any pointers to
tutorials or 3rd party
> components?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brendan
>
> ______________________________________________
> Rate your experiences with your UK and Ireland builders
at
>
http://www.ratethebuilder.co.uk
> =========================================
>
>
Google also does it. It's 'ajax', which just basically means
complex javascript, integrated with
some server-side programming.
There is not one specific tutorial about how to do this
particular effect, it's more something that
you can start to grasp if you're a javascript expert and
server-side language expert.
You can Google 'ajax' and you'll get an idea of how this
works in theory, as for practical ideas,
you'll have to learn javascript.
In Dreamweaver you can use some behavior that can sort point
you to similar effects: using Layers
you can use the 'Drag Layer' behavior, and set the layer to
snap to a given position.
That's a little bit of what is done with these sites, but
they push it way beyond, with custom
javascript functions of course.
seb ( [email protected])
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