Many things I end up doing seem motivated by being bored, so as a result of having a dead internet connection and nothing being on TV, I lashed a layout together so you can drag and drop the sidebar elements. It’s over at the provingground, just pick ‘ajaxed’ from the selector.

The coding is truly, truly vile and stuck together with gaffer-tape, but I just wanted to see if was possible. I am quite sure that it can be done more neatly1, and it really needs so do something clever like cookie-setting so it remembers the order you choose, but the concept works. I did want to make one of those animated screencast things, but haven’t got a clue how to without spending money on software. Why? To see if it can be done, and if that isn’t a decent reason then I don’t know what is.

Most of the resources used from script.aculo.us.

1A drag-and-drop write page should be in the next version of WP, so additional scripts should not be needed (as they are at the moment).

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