User:Sanyamgoyal/GSoC2010/Status
Identity[edit]
Name: Sanyam Goyal
Email: goyalsanyam@gmail.com
Project title:- Javascript overhaul of Semantic MediaWiki
Project summary[edit]
improved and extended the Javascript for Semantic MediaWiki and some of its spinoff extensions including SRF ,SFI SD and most notably Semantic Forms. This includes transferring over much of the Javascript to use the jQuery library, which is now becoming a MediaWiki standard.
Features Accomplished[edit]
In the Semantic MediaWiki extension:
- changed Special:Ask to use jQuery and add autocompletion to the top two input windows
Autocompletion is added to the property print-out input window using jQuery UI autocompletion plugin.
In the Semantic Forms extension:
- changed the file-upload window to use jQuery instead of the Floatbox library
no syntax change. Kept the same functionality just using the jQuery library instead.
- changed autocompletion to use jQuery instead of YUI
this feature is based upon the jQuery-ui autocomplete plugin.
- made 'Special:CreateClass' pages more dynamic
User now can add more rows dynamically. A simple java-script code is written to implement this functionality.
- added a autoGrow Plugin to textarea input.
Allows user to have a text-area input type with auto-growing functionality. Syntax ```| input type=textarea|autogrow .. ```
plugin based upon textare-autogrow plugin of jQuery
In the Semantic Drilldown extension:
- change the 'combobox' input to use jQuery instead of ext
The feature is based upon the jQuery-ui autocomplete#combo-box plugin
In the Semantic Results Format extension:
- added jqPlot and jqPie results format similar to Goolge Pie and Google-bar.
More can be found about this plugins at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats/jqplotbar_and_jqplotpie_formats
In the Semantic Forms Inputs extension
- changed the 'combobox' input to use jQuery instead of YUI, and added it directly in to Semantic Forms removing form SFI
combo-box added to Semantic Forms. With the same syntax as |input type=combobox . It uses the jQuery-ui autocomplete#combo-box plugin
- created a new 'simpledatepicker' input which use jQuery instead of YUI
his feature is based upon the datepicker plugin of jQuery-ui. Syntax :- ||input type=simpledatepicker.