feature request: trigger('eventcreate') to set event bindings to a widget without enhancing the markup

[frequent]

I have started to do I site where I'm creating enhanced JQM markup server-side to prevent the page from stalling when enhancing elements from a page or content pull.

This works except for the element bindings I'm missing on widgets like controlgroups.

So why don't have a trigger('eventcreate)` method in widgets that have allows to initialize a widget without enhancing the markup = only set element bindings?

[frequent]

I'm trying this with a few widgets now. Not that complicated. I'm mostly setting:

1. extra option:

  eventsOnly: null

2. check for data-eventsOnly="true" on the element

  if ( $el.jqmData("eventsOnly") == true ){
        o.eventsOnly = true;
  }

3. Wrap all content enhancing code into this

  if ( o.eventsOnly != true ){
     // enhance widgets
  }

4. this will set up the widget event bindings and ensure the widget will work properly, while all the heavy-duty code-enhancement is done elsewhere.

[toddparker]

@frequent - the ability to pre-decorate the markup and just bind events is something we really want to tackle. Would you be interested in working on this and coordinating with @johnbender and @scottjehl as you go? I'd like to tackle this for 1.3 or 1.4 at the latest.

[frequent]

@toddparker, @johnbender, @scottjehl - ok. Should be enough time for me to try and get Github set up properly... ;-).

[frequent]

@toddparker, @johnbender, @scottjehl

Ok. I have started to play around with this. I'm using:

   data-create="false"

as attribute to be put on a widget to only add JQM event bindings. Easy example (no events...) would be a controlgroup, where I'm just changing (still using JQM 1.2a):

if ( $.fn.controlgroup ) {
    $( document ).bind( "pagecreate create", function( e ) {
        $( ":jqmData(role='controlgroup')", e.target )
            // XXX filter eventsOnly
            .not( ":jqmData(create='false')" )
            .jqmEnhanceable()
            .controlgroup({ excludeInvisible: false });
            });
    }

in initializePage

I have also done button, collapsible and collapsibleSet widgets, which works quite nice (only need to shuffle code around so far).

Where should I put stuff I'm doing, so someone can take a look if interested? Create a branch for this?

[jaspermdegroot]

As discussed during today's meeting we are going to provide a "do not enhance" option, not an event. We'll make a new ticket for this.

[frequent]

Ok. I'm also doing this via option, not event... :-)