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At 5:20 PM -0500 3/2/07, Rolan Yang wrote:
>For the past 3 days, I have treaded through css hell converting a 
>site from nested tables to non-table css. There were issues with 
>background colors not showing through, columns not lining up, 
>padding and margins on boxes are handled differently between IE and 
>Firefox and various DTD types, quirks mode vs nonquirks??, phantom 
>rows appearing from nested div's with multiple floats in IE, and a 
>myriad number of other browser incompatibilities/bugs.
>
>All this was a result of some twisted desire to make table rows 
>drag+drop resortable with dom/javascript magic.
>
>After all the CSS quirks were addressed, I discovered that the 
>scriptaculous drag+drop functions would slow down or  lock up the 
>browser when there were too many elements to sortable. Ugh. Now, I'm 
>working on writing my own leaner drag and drop script which will 
>hopefully run more quickly. They say what doesn't kill you makes you 
>stronger. I'm not sure if I am any stronger, but I did lose a few 
>handfuls of hair in the process.
>
>~Rolan

~Rolan:

You want drag and drop stuff, look into Query. This is an example:

http://xn--nvg.com/dragdrop

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