Update On Drag/Drop Portal Interface for Drupal
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on creating a drag/drop portal interface with Drupal and Script.aculo.us. Many comments were interested in a jQuery port for Drupal 5.0, and Mark recommended building such a module on top of the brilliant Panels module. I finally had time to continue working on this, so I created an initial drag/drop module built on top of jQuery and Panels. It's far from complete (doesn't save user settings for example), but it's step in the right direction. I also posted an issue to Panels' tracker, pinging merlinofchaos (author of panels), so let's take the discussion there.
I really am looking forward to polishing this module, as I believe it'll be a timely addition to Drupal's arsenal of modules, now that jQuery is part of Core and Drupal 5.0 is around the corner.
You may download the module here. It's only meant to demonstrate functionality. It's for Drupal 4.7 (because Panels hasn't been ported to 5.0 yet), and requires Panels module. To use it, try to add a new panel and you will find a new type called "three column with drag-and-drop". I tested it with bluemarine; it may not work with other themes for reasons outlined in the issue I posted.
