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The battle of the list sorting javascript packages

by casey on Apr.24, 2006, under Software Digression

I started using Tool Man about a year ago to help with javascript drag and drop sorting of lists. Lately however, I have been using crap.taculo.us and have come to like many of its features especially the “$” referencing of dom elements. Unfortunately they can’t coexist. They both try to hijack the window.onload method rendering Toolman unusable. I’m sure after some debugging I could figure out a work around, but for now I recommend just using scriptaculous. It has all the same sorting features as Toolman plus tons of other AJAX stuff that you can’t do without. It is also built into Rails so it won’t be going away anytime soon.


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