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Posted by Platonistos on 02/26/07 23:15
On Feb 23, 2:05 am, "Andy Dingley" <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 22 Feb, 18:45, "Platonistos" <cassiu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If it *is* possible to do AJAX-style things without server-scripting,
> > what is the "trick" to it?
>
> It's certainly possible, and there's no trick to it at all.
>
> The core of AJAX (without which it stops being AJAX) is that some
> client-side JavaScript code loads some content up by a separate HTTP
> transaction and does something with it. No more than that. The dynamic
> on-the-fly web service SOAP-queriers are nice, but you can still start
> small.
>
> As an example, consider an RSS newsfeed display. The HTML host page
> loads and then it once loads the RSS from elsewhere, renders it with
> XSLT and places it into a <div>. It simply doesn't care and can't
> actually tell if the RSS document it receives came from a static file
> or was dynamically generated -- it just requests a URL and receives a
> document in response. For many first-use RSS feeds, for caching
> reasons, the document is a static file re-generated periodically by a
> cron job. For filtered or aggregated RSS, it's probably a dynamic
> database query. The AJAX consumer simply can't tell though.
Thank you very much to all responders - that's just what I wanted to
know. :) I'll keep working at the stuff; hopefully, it'll be under
my fingers before too long. It seems like I'm going to have to take
the bloody plunge and learn ASP or PHP if I want to get much further
in, anyway.
Now - can anyone explain why Mozilla won't format tables that mix
ASCII and Unicode-Hebrew correctly; or, even better, how to get
Mozilla to format mixed ASCII and UniHebrew tables correctly? :)
Problem has been buggering me for a week now. Bugger.
CMZ
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