Google widgets

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alex.barylski
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Google widgets

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Does anyone know of a jQuery library or other which assist is implementing something like iGoogle with it's draggable widgets?

Drag/Drop is easy enough but I imagine there are some things which could be pushed into a extension/addon to jQuery to simplify the process???

What really has me thinking is how to best arrange the widgets. Do you force a fixed width on each and allow up to three columns like Google seems too? At least they do according to the three monitors I've tested on.

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Re: Google widgets

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jQuery UI has Sortables for creating such interfaces
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Re: Google widgets

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Ahhh...didn't even think to use sortables for that...I was thinking like a blog management tool maybe or list of images but I suppose it would work for that too...

Only I wonder how much work it would be to get sortables to push down other widgets when dragging from another column...if that is even a problem I don't know...

Thanks though I'll certainly look into it.

p.s-Looks like Google uses YUI. LOL strange. :P
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