ajaxify pagination

[ewinslow]

With a few modifications to core, we could make this work via ajax.

1) an entity list (include navigation) would have to be wrapped in a div with a user-specified ID.

2) a handler is added using $('selector').live('click',...) to the pagination navigation links.

3) this handler calls $('#internalid').load(href + " #internalid") to refresh the contents of the entity list, including the navigation.

This requires some modifications to core so that ID's can be specified for these lists and so they can be wrapped in div's to sandbox the .load() call. On the upside, it degrades quite gracefully.

[Purus]

Isn't this to be covered by blacktooth's work on ajaxify?

Just curious to know.. :)

[brettp]

His work included ajax pagination but hasn't been pulled into core yet.

[Purus]

If the target of blacktooth's ajaxify is 1.8.2, the milestone for this ticket can be changed to 1.8.2. Is that okay?

[ewinslow]

Ajaxify is not going to be pulled in for 1.8.2. blacktooth added a lot of great features, but I think we still need more clarity on The Right Way to do things before we pull all of that in.

[ewinslow]

Also, we're trying to avoid adding new features in bugfix releases.

[ewinslow]

Hey, sem. Thanks for being willing to take this on. I think I'd like to write a design doc so we can really figure out what the appropriate approach is. Care to start one?

[sembrestels]

I began the page in the community, in the Elgg Feedback and Planning group.

​http://community.elgg.org/pages/view/918176/ajax-pagination--bundled-plugin-in-19

I ask for access to repository to work in this plugin. Except on that, I will continue doing pull requests as usual.