[Typo3-dev] AJAX-based Page Tree Extension

[Jeff Segars]

After reading a couple threads about adding AJAX capabilities to the 
backend,  I decided to create a quick demo extension that uses AJAX to 
update the pagetree You can find the extension at 
http://webempoweredchurch.org/ajaxdemo/.

The extension is far from optimal, as it uses an XCLASS to extend the 
pagetree and updates the entire table containing the pagetree, rather 
than only the changed rows.  Also, Internet Explorer does not work at 
the moment due to innerHTML for a table being read-only.

Despite these limitations, I think the extension does make the backend 
more responsive and faster.  I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who can 
  try the extension out.  The best way to see the speed improvements is 
to  bring up the list view of a parent page and rearrange the children 
or add subpages and watch the updates occur without a full page reload.

If there's interest, hopefully we can start looking to expand this to 
other parts of the backend.

Thanks,
Jeff