Admin interface should be more friendly and less time consuming [AJAX]

[mdawaffe]

The admin panels that consist largely of tables or lists of data can be made more dynamic with some happy AJAX. Ideally, both adding new items and deleting pre-existing ones should be done on the fly without a page reload.

The attached patch allows for on the fly deletion of posts, pages, categories, comments, moderated comments, links and link categories. Complete with pretty colors.

TODO: Addition of categories, links and link cats (will wait until links get overhauled).

TODO: Wrap HTML calls to JS in if statements to prevent loading of superfluous content on pages that don't need it.

NOTE: New PHP file does not check_admin_referer()!

[mdawaffe]

grab trs or lis from id="the-list" or "the-list-x" ("x" for "extra" - splices some bits off). Do things with them.

[markjaquith]

Great idea!

Does it have no-JS fallback?

It'd be great to be able to go through comments and do stuff like "Set as spam" or "Approve" on the fly.

Also, we could add post_meta on the fly.

[mdawaffe]

It should fall back on no-JS and on no-AJAX.

post_meta and the like will likely happen eventually. This ticket will just track addition/deletion from the above lists.

[mdawaffe]

item is bad juju in IE JS

[mdawaffe]

list-manipulation2.diff makes list deletion compatible with IE.

As an aside, I titled this ticket miserably :)

[matt]

(In [2862]) Fix for IE from Michael, fixes #1634

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Milestone 2.0 deleted