Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/07/07 14:21

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Andy Dingley
<dingbat@codesmiths.com> writing in news:1181211080.603789.66930
@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> On 7 Jun, 11:02, hans.schmi...@gmx.net wrote:
>
>> When I write an e-mail in
>> gmail, it saves the draft automatically. how is it done?
>
> Research "AJAX"
>
> It's not (usually) background form submission, it's background use of
> a XmlHttpRequest object to send and receive XML.
>
> Useful techniques, but make sure there's some usable fallback for non-
> JS customers.
>
>

I'm beginning to really hate AJAX. I don't mind a trip back to the
server, but I do mind the screen graying out, and then not coming back
correctly. Evite is a good example of that - it fails miserably in
Opera, and I have even had problems with IE. Firefox seems to be the only
one that works correctly with it.

To the OP, please consider how you do this - before AJAX was the
technique du jour, people were used to a trip to the server. If a form
is designed well, an extra trip is hardly noticable.

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