Re: GSoC idea: adding JavaScript library / framework in gitweb

From: chaitanyaa nalla <nallachaitu@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2012, 08:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CACeyogdkEdkYa+SQvUq50FU5P7ohq-tLf8tgi1v6o_HMM5bSsg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201203241949.04956.jnareb@gmail.com>

Dear Jakub,

    if we handle the sorting of the tables on the client side itself
,will that be a  load on the browser?
Other ideas which i have in mind are

1.Highligting matched portions of project name while searching the project name ,even more intuitively 2.project pagination.

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

Show 40 quoted lines

> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, chaitanyaa nalla wrote:
>
>> Dear Jakub ,
>>
>>  could you please suggest any other ideas or features so that i can
>> think upon them and come up with further good ideas.
>
> One idea for additional feature that I have already mentioned, and which
> I have put on https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas is
> client-side sorting of tables, e.g. of list of all projects, a la
> jQuery / MediaWiki (Wikipedia) "sorttable".
>
> Another would be using deferreds or queues for interactive blame, so
> that repainting (editing DOM) happens asynchronously to avoid locking
> up browser, like in
>  http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/08/11/timed-array-processing-in-javascript/
>
> There was also some time ago a patch that added ability to mark a commit
> to compare current commit to (using JavaScript and cookies), to have an
> UI to compare arbitrary commits using 'commitdiff' view.  Or something
> similar to MediaWiki (Wikipedia) page history view.
>
>
> Yet another would be support for graphical representation of history in
> 'log', 'shortlog' and 'history' views e.g. using Raphael.js
>
> Perhaps it would be possible to employ some JavaScript syntax highlighter
> to pretty-print contents of 'blob' view.
>
>
> Hope That Helps.
>
>
> P.S. You can see gitweb at work here:
>
>  http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland