A lot of clients have been requesting edit in place editing for their Web 2.0 applications. It’s a simple but very useful feature. It makes editing documents on the web a lot faster than the traditional point and click. Now there are many ways to tackle the problem but there is some pretty good documentation on Joseph Scott’s blog. Now I wouldn’t say this is a perfect solution, no solution really is, but it does work and get the job done. I’m sure over time this code will evolve as all coding usually does.
In the meantime, I have used this technique on a couple of sites. When I get a free moment I will probably try to create my own JavaScript library to handle the task. That’s the thing, at the moment I don’t have free time. So until then I will use and adapt Joseph Scott’s method of AJAX editing in place.
