Your local Dragdealer became more trustworthy

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I used the original Dragdealer on a project 2 years ago and enjoyed working with it. I pushed it quite a bit, had it set to a step-sequence style slider/marker thing, dragging through dynamically added or subtracted steps. It took quite a beating before slowing down. It's eventual slow down in my app could have been due to code on my side trying to do too much on the page in response to the drag position.

I look forward to trying this new one.

Combined with cool stuff like pushState, it doesn't surprise me that web app capability is getting pretty damn interesting and is set to steal chunks of native app thunder. Whoever gets a good web-app store happening will be my hero! Not sure what the hold up is.

Really like the demo page: http://skidding.github.io/dragdealer/

I didn't notice at first that the top header is actually a page-swiper to the config settings. Cool.

Glad you liked working with Dragdealer. It's awesome that a JS lib written 4 years ago is still useful, considering the moving speed of the industry. The code wasn't rewritten much, just a few known bugs fixed.

The big increment is having a public repo with tests and documentation to build on. I'm sure there are many other people who could come up with better performance optimizations than me, that's why I worked to make this available

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