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Might work in general; however, in order to tell xajax to go to that anchor you'd have to write an extra JS snippet that would clutter the whole page even more. I think the above is as ideal as it can get.

So, will you now take that "messy" out?

Yes?OK, then I misunderstood the concept.

Would be great. The simpler the better.
There is a possibility to pass the call for "#" to a JavaScript function referenced by xajax so you would save the onmousedown. However, that I found messy....
I'll fix that up later on and you can tell which one you find better.

Why not?
I mean, when you do a layout in, say, Illustrator, don't you save your work? Or do you expect the layout program to do that for you?
I think people actually expect to find something like a "Yes, save this beautiful sort order" button somewhere. I for one would not believe that it has been done in the background. People want to be reassured, that's why. But that's just my opinion, I guess it can all be done flexible enough with or without dynamic saving.

Well, is it too hard to climb 3 flights of stairs although there is a lift?
No, it is certainly not but most people would prefer the lift anyway

You are right anyway, ajax does add bloat so I agree that it should be used with care.
When have the choice to submit a simple form the old fashioned way or with ajax, just to show users the "Thank you for sending" screen a second earlier I will always go with your opinion.

However, for the board admin it's great.
In order to resort your categories and forums you really have to click a lot - and wait a lot.
It is much easier and more intuitive to just drag and drop.

BTW
This has not too much to o with ajax anyway. Even worse, it's just JavaScript and DHTML.
The result can/should still be submitted the old way.

As for the Drag&Drop forum sorting:
It may be a bit more tricky than it sounds.
After draggging and dropping everything in place you will still have to press a submit button.
Else all minor changes on your way will become effective immediately, this will totally confuse your current visitors I bet
Otherwise it's a nice idea.
I played around with Drag'n'drop way back in 1999, but at that time it was a pain in the arm. No DOM, just a bunch of somewhat incomatible browsers, so I left it at that time.
I think I'll give it another try now...

Since the punBB user table includes a lot more information than just the basics I think this would be difficult.
F.e. their status, register date a.s.o. you will not find in other tables.
You could import users into the punBB user table by hand and give them default values for the fields you don't have, then update them.

?? It's easy, really.
I did it before and I don't see a real problem with it.

I found a way to have it working with and without JavaScript. Yes.

If you have the mod installed, go to viewtopic.php line 273 and replace this line

   
$quote_link = '<a href="#req_message" onClick="xajax_quote('.$cur_post['id'].')">';

with this one

   
 $quote_link = '<a href="post.php?tid='.$id.'&qid='.$cur_post['id'].'" onMouseOver="this.href=\'#req_message\'" onClick="xajax_quote('.$cur_post['id'].')">';

This way the "normal" link is active but is changed on mouseover - of course only if JavaScript is enabled.

I am now updating the download files and since it's now working without Javscript as well I'll put it also on Punres.

Another issue I found on the script.gr board using JavaScript:
The beautiful german umlaut characters lead to a JS error, I therefore added a utf8_encode() call to the quote.server.php

Do you have more information on that?
I have no idea f.e. about the way these braille and reader tools work, but it would definitely a good idea to have them working as well.

Btw: The registration functions like before without JavaScript. You;ll get the same error messages from the server, it's just that you'd have to wait for it.

In general you have a point tere I think. Apps that rely 100% on Ajax are not (yet) a good idea I guess.

What I meant with "instant" was something like "Preview while you type".
I am just sitting on that anyway, I think it is better to do it with ajax because then you can use the punBB parser and you don't have to write one in JavaScript.