Hi Animal,
The point is that the API is documented, logical and reasonably simple for
an experienced software developer to use, you don't actually *need* to
understand the guts of it.
OK, that's the bit I missed; I'll have to go back and look again. As I said
before, I was very impressed with the quality of the UI.
And as for using HTTP.... You are isolated in a browser - it's what you
have!
Oh, how wrong you are! (Or should I say, HTTP's not the only tool in the box
and it's certainly not the sharpest :-) Once http has pimped your hosting
page and applet for you, you are free to deploy any form of light-weight,
high-performance, application-sepecific protocol over a secure TCP/IP
connection. Context-rich, connection-oriented, authenticated,
high-performance, it's just all gravy here!
Cheers Richard Maher
PS. You don't even need HTTP for the applet upload, but I have to admit that
it beats FTP at least :-)
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Richard Maher wrote:
Hi Animal,
You might want to consider the full-on AJAX/RIA option like:
I'm not real keen on http as a middleware protocol and much prefer
something
context-rich, stateful, conversational, and with a bit more power, but I
did
like the quality of your output (If not the performance :-) So if there
is a
"Third-Way" in the argument between Tables and Select-Lists then I'm all
for
hearing about it!
I tried viewing the source and also tried looking up some of the
responses
to "grid" but I'm sorry to report that I'm still none the wiser. You
couldn't just post ~100-200 line example with inline styles that knocks
up
one of these grids couldya? <DIVseems to be extremely powerful and the
driving force behind a lot of this stuff; is that right? I did see a
great
example from someone here where the horizontal and vertical headers
would
follow there columns when scrolling on way but stay fixed the other.
This
was amazing functionality! But when I looked at the source it was
copyrighted and many hundreds of lines long :-(
I guess what I'm realling looking for is "Where are the browser vendors
putting their investment dollars when it comes to tables/select lists?"
With
Internet Explorer is certainly looks like Tables to me.
Regards Richard Maher
PS. No idea what RIA is sorry.
"Rich Internet Application."
The actual *example* code is quite small, 48 lines - follow the link to
forum-search.js
>
And you won't be able to make head or tail of the actual library source
(ext-all.js - the compressed version). It's a complex library. You'd have to
study it in detail and step through the uncompressed source code. It's open
source, so you are free to do so.
>
The point is that the API is documented, logical and reasonably simple for
an experienced software developer to use, you don't actually *need* to
understand the guts of it.
>
And as for using HTTP.... You are isolated in a browser - it's what you
have!
>
Animal