Re: The XForms Dialog Module

Nick,

It seems that these can have resolutions easily. Here is my proposal.

1. Options:

- xf:show/xf:hide and xforms-dialog-shown/xforms-dialog-hidden events
- xf:open/xf:close actions and xforms-dialog-closed/xforms-dialog-opened
events

Here is what other people use:

- show'hide: YUI [1], Dojo [2], Bootstrap [3]
- open/close: jQuery UI [4]

Bootstrap has shown/hidden events, I don't know about others.

I'd go with show/hide and shown/hidden.

NOTE: Bootstrap also supports "toggle" as an action on a dialog in addition
to show/hide. It could make sense as we already have this action.

2. Suggested behavior:

- close the dialog if it becomes non-relevant (we can't do much else anyway)
- don't re-open if it becomes relevant (idea: non-relevant controls lose
state information)

-Erik

[1] http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/panel/dialog.html
[2] http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dijit/Dialog.html
[3] http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modals
[4] http://api.jqueryui.com/dialog/#method-open


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Nick Van den Bleeken <
Nick.Van.den.Bleeken@inventivegroup.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  Off the top of my head I remember 2 concerns/problems that still aren't
> addressed:
>
>  * The actions are called hide/show and the events are called close/open
> (and consequently the wording wasn't consistent)
> * We don't specify behaviour in relation to relevance (is the close event
> dispatched when the dialog or an ancestor becomes non relevant. Does that
> dialog becomes visible again when it becomes relevant again (if it was
> visible before it became non-relavant)?)
>
>  Kind regards,
>
> Nick Van den Bleeken
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>  On 23 Jan 2013, at 20:40, Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> This is mainly a question to Nick, which was raised by Uli and I in
> today's short call: is there any reason not to integrate the XForms
> Dialog Module?
>
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/The_XForms_Dialog_Module
>
> I don't recall there being blocking issues, but I might be wrong.
>
> -Erik
>
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