Use of Javascript [was] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-05-02 Thread Rick Reumann
Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote the following on 4/19/2005 5:30 AM: I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Sorry to jump on the train late, but the above is completely BS. If you want to use standard HTML, then there will be some things you will HAVE to do with

Re: Use of Javascript [was] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-05-02 Thread Sergey Livanov
I liked the smartclient technology very much! It's great! Just wondering if there will be a similar possibility in Java Server Faces? Can I combine the capabilities of JSF and AJAX ? RR Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote the following on 4/19/2005 5:30 AM: I also think that a well-designed

Re: Use of Javascript [was] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-05-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 5/2/05, Sergey Livanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the smartclient technology very much! It's great! Just wondering if there will be a similar possibility in Java Server Faces? Can I combine the capabilities of JSF and AJAX ? Yes. The general idea is that you encapsulate the

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread David Suarez
. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:31 PM To: David Suarez Cc: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! David Suarez wrote: Saw the flood of these AJAX messages and was interested so I did a quick test using a plain html page to see how easy

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Craig McClanahan wrote: The 3000 or so people that are here want to be able to ask questions about using Struts IMO, using Struts with client side technologies such as .js, dojo and ajax is on topic. .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread DGraham
is dead and needn't be flogged any more. Dennis Vic Cekvenich (netsql) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: news [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/21/2005 08:58 AM Please respond to Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org To user@struts.apache.org cc Subject Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Craig McClanahan wrote

Re: [OT] [Friday] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all salient points have been made. Agree. It's almost friday: http://www.moronland.com/image.php?media=Apple%20Weed .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [OT] [Friday] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Weber
Heh. Normally I hate stuff like this, but for some reason, that one was so silly it just cracked me up. Must be because I just woke up. :) Erik Vic Cekvenich (netsql) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all salient points have been made. Agree. It's almost friday:

[OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Weber
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:47 am, Erik Weber said: I, with respect for the author, disagree with this entirely. I am people, and this is not what I expect or desire at all. As a user, I expect and desire 1) A fast download 2) my bookmarks to work/easy to remember URLs

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Erik Weber wrote: SwingWorker worker = new CustomSwingWorker(GET_XML_RPC_DATA) { I guess I'm in the wrong forum. :) Erik Ahh it's the right forum ;-). My code is VERY similar to above. .V - To unsubscribe,

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
There are lots of issues besides just wanting this to happen. All serious attempts so far have pretty much failed. Have you looked at Flash, if this is your big interest? Flash ActionScript pretty much does what you want. But, I don't think it is a good idea. I think you have to keep some

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You know, if what you want is Swing on the client, i.e., you write code to do everything, then my VisML project that I mentioned yesterday is one such option. But you start to see in a pretty big hurry that it isn't a good idea... One of the most powerful aspects of web development is the way

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: someone mentioned the idea of having custom tags that generate the underlying code... this is an intersting idea to me because you get the whole Swing-ish code-centric approach underlying it all, but with custom tags so you don't have to do all the code if you don't want

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
Good idea. There is an incipient similar thing going on with the image package in the commons sandbox. Abey Mullasery's work there is interesting. I think it needs a bit more practical grounding, but that will come. These two projects do not overlap, but the point does. On 4/20/05, Frank W.

[_Severely_ OT; linguistics, end of thread (for me)] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: According to the linguists, the beauty of language is just the opposite, viz. its public nature, so that private meanings are not only allowed, they categorically make no sense. That's swell, from an academic point of view, but the fact is that people mean different things with

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread David Suarez
the trick there. I was interested in the conversation, hope this adds some value. Regards...djsuarez -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:49 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Martin Cooper

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
that uses Dojo if you want! Frank I was interested in the conversation, hope this adds some value. Regards...djsuarez -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:49 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie

Re: [_Severely_ OT; linguistics, end of thread (for me)] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
The fact that words have multiple meanings/uses does not mean the meanings are private. If the meanings are private, they have absolutely no use whatsoever. That is a DOH! SNIP On 4/20/05, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's swell, from an academic point of view, but the fact is that

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote:I do think there is more that can be done, and I still think the tags are the best way to present it. Maybe tags that leverage dojo.js? Hey, if you'd like to be involved with my efforts, I could certainly use the help in ... Do you sf.net or wiki type resources? .V

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Vic Cekvenich (netsql) wrote: Frank W. Zammetti wrote:I do think there is more that can be done, and I still think the tags are the best way to present it. Maybe tags that leverage dojo.js? Today I did some refactoring of the whole thing, and the important point of it all is that a developer

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/20/05, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be doing sf.net... Once I have a complete codebase (not final, just more complete than what I posted previously) I'll see about getting it set up as a project on struts.sf.net. I think that's the right place for it. In the mean

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I apologize... I was not paying attention and didn't realize this was on the users list. There has simultaneously been a thread about this on the user list and the dev list (we were told it was appropriate for the dev list by the way), and I didn't notice. My bad. Frank Craig McClanahan

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
I noticed that the last few days there were four and five posts to this list, so the damage should be minimal. I am not going to state the obvious I noticed the following Shale thread here as well. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-userm=111272767800458w=2 Let's keep a clean ship,

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Axel Sachmann
Hey - please write to the Mailing List and no CC please. Thx Axel Frank W. Zammetti wrote: I apologize... I was not paying attention and didn't realize this was on the users list. There has simultaneously been a thread about this on the user list and the dev list (we were told it was

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/18/05, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get beyond doing the grunt work yourself for Ajax, I recommend taking a look at this: http://dojotoolkit.org/intro_to_dojo_io.html and downloading the dojo.io package from their site. Personally, I'm not convinced that we need

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21)
-Original Message- Users that turn off JS are akin, in my mind, to automobile drivers who decide they would rather play Fred Flintstone, cut holes in the floorboards and not bother starting the engine. Oh, you'll get around, but your missing out! While I am certainly not trying to say

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Mon, April 18, 2005 11:12 am, Emmanouil Batsis said: I haven't really studied the samples yet, but it would seem more semantically correct to me if the html:form was used to make this work. I'll try to come up with more concrete suggestions. I thought of that

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Stphane Zuckerman
Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) a écrit : Well,... If we look behind the problems that could arise with JavaScript... I am really convinced that JS in a webapp is a really BAD idea. Think about Cross-Scripting. It is not that your web-applicaiton is the culprit, but someoneelse's bad-behaving Javascript

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread William Connor
Based on my experience porting the Struts tags to AJAX/SWF (swf.dev.java.net), I would agree with Craig that the existing Struts tags would be sufficient; however, tweaking the event handler attrs, as in SWF, does provide some simplification. For example (in SWF), w/ o the tweak we would

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:47 am, Craig McClanahan said: This is exactly the area I've been having trouble with this proposal as well ... tell me again why you can't use Ajax techniques with the standard Struts HTML tags? No one, at least not me, has made that statement at any point. I frankly

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 12:53 am, Martin Cooper said: To get beyond doing the grunt work yourself for Ajax, I recommend taking a look at this: http://dojotoolkit.org/intro_to_dojo_io.html and downloading the dojo.io package from their site. It does look cool. However, in some ways what I

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today. People expect, generally, more robust UIs delivered in a

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21)
-Original Message- I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today. People expect, generally, more robust UIs delivered in a browser. They expect webapps that

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:37 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: Maybe I'm to old (in respect to IT-technology), but for me most of those highly sophisticated apps (be them client or web) are not very usable... I prefer a simple processing scheme. No doubt there were (are still are) some very

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Erik Weber
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today. People expect, generally,

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:46 am, Michael J. said: Struts-only or JSP-only solution is not good enough. The more portable is the better, so when I read Frank's proposal I thought, why those input controls are generated with custom tags? What if controls were created with Javascript? Custom tags

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:47 am, Erik Weber said: I, with respect for the author, disagree with this entirely. I am people, and this is not what I expect or desire at all. As a user, I expect and desire 1) A fast download 2) my bookmarks to work/easy to remember URLs 3) an organized and

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Marsh-Bourdon, Christopher
Hear-hear. My users would brain me if I just provided that amount of interface on a web application. -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 April 2005 16:17 To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Scott Piker
, April 19, 2005 10:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
Sometimes it takes more developer effort/technology to create something that's easier to use. Sometimes it doesn't. But to say that client-side scripting is completely unnecessary for well designed application UIs is incorrect, IMO. It depends on what your users need to do. People just

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Jason King
We need to agree to disagree on the virtue/detriment of javascript in web pages. Different applications for different audiences with different purposes have different solutions. At my company we've implemented intranet apps where the users do a significant amount of heads-down data entry.

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
+1 Frank! Good old agility and Xtreme principles say do it and worry about all this wah wah wah wah later. You have a simple and very useful idea which is at the beginning stages but which is well-thought out and which is based on a solid engineering foundation. Go for it as you initially

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I don't think he said absolutely everyone, including specifically Erik Weber, Erik. You turn out, in the end, to be just a person: not people. ///;-) Jack On 4/19/05, Erik Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21)

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Michael J. wrote: People just should stop thinking in terms of client-side scripting and start thinking in terms of client-side rendering :-) (XAML, XUL, Flex, JDNC, DHTML(Ajax, JavaScript)). UI naturaly should be done on client side, asking for domain and other services from the

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
HUZZAH! +1 This is about AJAX, not about JavaScript. I am with those who say that if you don't like abortion, don't have one. Also, if you don't like JavaScript, don't use it. But, in the middle of an AJAX discussion all this pro and con JavaScript discussion is ridiculous. Jack On 4/19/05,

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That's an interesting comment Vic... are you saying you favor an approach where the entire client view itself is rendered on the client? I ask because that used to be my thinking, and I'm moved away from it to some degree. By way of example: * The little proof of concept thing I mentioned

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: I don't think he said absolutely everyone, including specifically Erik Weber, Erik. You turn out, in the end, to be just a person: not people. ///;-) Not me, though; I'm actually people. I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other. on-topic obligatory='true' I

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
On 4/19/05, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on-topic obligatory='true' I like fast download times, but I hate the web: I want any page that's more complicated than Here, download this, you'll be better off to have functionality that doesn't make me wait all the time. For a server

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You would, I think, love some of the apps I've put together. The problem though, as far as other developers go, is that they really are a whole different paradigm than what most are used to. Ironically, the very first web app I did for my current employer some five years ago is the best example

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Michael J. wrote: offtopic Have you tried this one: http://map.search.ch/ Try to magnify ;) /offtopic Oh, that's neat. If you could drag it it'd be like a real application! Cool! Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Simply put, there isn't the usual HTML rendering happening on the server because the HTML essentially already exists. Just a nitpick; there's never any HTML rendering on the server. Generation, perhaps, but not rendering. /bitchiness Dave

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? On 4/19/05, Michael J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/05, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on-topic obligatory='true' I like fast download times, but I hate the web: I want any page that's more complicated than Here, download

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Well, to the extent that AJAX techniques can make a site seem faster, it is actually on-topic. And I don't care if this map thing is on-topic or not, it is cool as hell :) By the way, not sure who said it, but you can in fact scroll around this map, just like Google Maps, by dragging. The zoom

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That's actually a good point... We've all heard about JSF and ASP.Net, how they handle client-side events server-side, which is a concept I've never been especially enamored with. But, when you see some actual examples of this in things like what Google is doing, you start to reconsider that

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I may be nuts, many have said I am on this list, unfairly, but isn't rendering HTML capable of being understood either as rendering the HTML meaning creating the HTML or rendering the HTML meaning creating the view from the HTML? At least people like David Geary talk about serverside rendering

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? ...which is straying a bit from Struts? Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I think this AJAX discussion was about integrating AJAX and Struts. Not complaining about your asides, Dave. Just trying to maintain some focus. ///;-) On 4/19/05, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dakota Jack wrote: This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? ...which is

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: I may be nuts, many have said I am on this list, unfairly, but isn't rendering HTML capable of being understood either as rendering the HTML meaning creating the HTML or rendering the HTML meaning creating the view from the HTML? At least people like David Geary talk about

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Not if I complete my project! ;) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Tue, April 19, 2005 1:37 pm, Dave Newton said: Dakota Jack wrote: This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? ...which is straying a bit from

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Not if I complete my project! ;) I hope you do! See if you can put some version on struts.sf.net, this is how some committers got in. I am no JavaScript guru, but something similar to XUL and new W3 XForms, were it's even possible to just send XML-RPC style XML to the

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:33 pm, Vic Cekvenich (netsql) said: Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Not if I complete my project! ;) I hope you do! See if you can put some version on struts.sf.net, this is how some committers got in. That's my plan at the moment. There frankly isn't a ton left to do

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: The problem arose, initially, because we were allowing for something like 300 records max at a time. Such a request was taking like 5 seconds on a P3 550. As it turns out, the response from the server was sub-second (VERY low, better than anything we see even today in

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
Perhaps I'm missing the simplicity of your proposal. Let's take the example from your original RFC. Here it is, for convenience: In the JSP page: html:button property=button1 value=Click to do Ajax! ajaxRef=button1/ In the Ajax config file: AjaxConfig ajaxElement idbutton1/id

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:47 am, Craig McClanahan said: This is exactly the area I've been having trouble with this proposal as well ... tell me again why you can't use Ajax techniques with the standard Struts HTML

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: Perhaps I'm missing the simplicity of your proposal. Let's take the example from your original RFC. Here it is, for convenience: snip Now let's look at the equivalent if I use the existing Struts HTML tags and Dojo. In the JSP page: html: button property=button1 value=Click

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: * Provide a client side JavaScript library that does the grunt work of making the back-end XmlHttpRequest call, and updating the corresponding portion of your DOM. Martin likes DOJO for this; there are also a bunch of other libraries that do the same sort of thing that

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Cooper wrote: Perhaps I'm missing the simplicity of your proposal. Let's take the example from your original RFC. Here it is, for convenience: snip Now let's look at the equivalent if I use the existing

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Cooper wrote: * Provide a client side JavaScript library that does the grunt work of making the back-end XmlHttpRequest call, and updating the corresponding portion of your DOM. Martin likes DOJO for this;

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Shihgian Lee
What you demonstrate here I would also argue is worse for page authors, who now have to be concerned with script writing as well as layout of simple HTML tags. You can argue that a page author would know Javascript as well, and you may be right in most cases, but the idea that everyone seems

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
On 4/19/05, Shihgian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you demonstrate here I would also argue is worse for page authors, who now have to be concerned with script writing as well as layout of simple HTML tags. You can argue that a page author would know Javascript as well, and you may be

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Michael J. wrote: Glorified graphics artists do not do markup, they create nice mockups in Photoshop, which adore big bosses, who tell those unglofied ones to implement unearthy coolness in code. And those implementing this fancy stuff better know [at least about existence of] Javascript, XHTML,

[OT] RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Fogleson, Allen
To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Shihgian Lee Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! I don't think saying it is wrong is accurate... It is just an environment you are probably not used to. Some argue it is better that way and many say that's the way we should be moving. Not sure I agree, but some

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Martin Cooper wrote: Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Again, by all means, use Dojo. Not everyone will agree it's a good answer though. Not everyone will see it as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Poor fools. ;-) ;-) ;-) -- Martin Cooper Headline for tmrw bloogers:

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You say it jokingly, but... Vic Cekvenich (netsql) wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Again, by all means, use Dojo. Not everyone will agree it's a good answer though. Not everyone will see it as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Poor fools.

Re: [OT] RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Shihgian Lee Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! I don't think saying it is wrong is accurate... It is just an environment you are probably not used to. Some argue it is better that way and many say that's the way we should be moving. Not sure I agree, but some

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: That's why I said or maybe somewhere else. It would be perfectly fine to put the JavaScript functions in a separate .js file and linked to from the page. And neither of us are talking scriptlets here. ;-) Glad neither of us are talking scriplets :) Didn't think we were

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: My Huh? comment was in reference you your statement that the approach I was describing doesn't really help people with existing apps, which I take issue with. If you put the JavaScript methods in separate file, it has the exact same impact on the JSP pages as your approach

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
+1 also to Frank's suggestions, although I realize he was not ready to cash in the ticket yet. On the whole, I like his no nonsense and non-convoluted approach to these problems. That is what I liked about Struts from the beginning. The present course is not clear. Nor is there any perceived

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
According to the linguists, the beauty of language is just the opposite, viz. its public nature, so that private meanings are not only allowed, they categorically make no sense. This has been the rock-hard basis for modern linguistic analysis for as long as the Sun has risen. Technical terms can

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Shey Rab Pawo
The problem with NET and JSF is not what they do client side but what they do server side. They are just too heavy and will never scale. This does not mean that they will not have a market. Hopefully they will so that those who love them will have money and leave us alone. But, for people who

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Rodolfo García Esteban/CYII
Where do we find information about this marvellous stuff? Rodolfo __ Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/04/2005 15:02 Por favor, responda a Struts Users Mailing List Para: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org cc: (cco: Rodolfo

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Stéphane Zuckerman
Dakota Jack a écrit : This is a fundamental shift in architecture that makes clear sense. I tend to agree with you, and if this were to be integrated in Struts, my life would be easier (I am using AJAX stuff in some parts of my webapp). However, I have a serious concern related to security :

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Stéphane Zuckerman
Rodolfo García Esteban/CYII a écrit : Where do we find information about this marvellous stuff? Rodolfo __ Look for XMLHttpRequest and/or ActiveXObject(Microsoft.XMLHTTP) XML.com and the Apple dev center have good introductory articles about it. Basically, this is a

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/AjaxStruts On 4/18/05, Rodolfo García Esteban/CYII [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do we find information about this marvellous stuff? Rodolfo __ Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/04/2005 15:02 Por favor, responda a Struts Users

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/AjaxStruts On 4/18/05, Stéphane Zuckerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rodolfo García Esteban/CYII a écrit : Where do we find information about this marvellous stuff? Rodolfo __ Look for XMLHttpRequest and/or

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
Good overview, Stephane On 4/18/05, Stéphane Zuckerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rodolfo García Esteban/CYII a écrit : Where do we find information about this marvellous stuff? Rodolfo __ Look for XMLHttpRequest and/or ActiveXObject(Microsoft.XMLHTTP)

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Hubert Rabago
For articles, blogs, libraries, etc, related to this technology, take a look at http://www.ajaxmatters.com/ Our own Frank wrote an article about using it on http://www.omnytex.com/articles/xhrstruts/ He also proposed integrating the technology with the Struts taglibs:

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Stéphane Zuckerman wrote: if this were to be integrated in Struts, my life would be easier. I too will now check it out. .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Woodchuck
eee... javascript... yuck, ptooey! ptooey!! --- Vic Cekvenich (netsql) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stéphane Zuckerman wrote: if this were to be integrated in Struts, my life would be easier. I too will now check it out. .V

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On 4/6 I posted the following message to the Struts dev list... I can't seem to find the thread in the list archives, if anyone else can I would appreciate very much you posting the link to it... This was discussing my proposal for integrating AJAX functionality into the existing Struts taglibs.

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
ptooey... I've always wanted to know how to spell that :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Mon, April 18, 2005 10:29 am, Woodchuck said: eee... javascript... yuck, ptooey! ptooey!! --- Vic Cekvenich (netsql)

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Hubert Rabago
Frank, You must've started typing this response a while ago. I already sent a message on this thread linking to the dev email with your proposal. Hubert On 4/18/05, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/6 I posted the following message to the Struts dev list... I can't seem to find

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Yep, sorry about that... I had it in my drafts folder because I got called away in the middle of it, and I didn't check all the replies to the current thread before sending it so I didn't see your link until afterwards. My bad :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
JavaScript provides a client side rather developed engine in JavaScript as well as Flash, etc. This is merely a resource. The yuck, ptooey! ptooey response to these ideas, especially ones in production and successful for quite a while, strikes me as rather less than professional. I think it is

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
Let me first say that IMHO, introducing AJAX capabilities into the html taglib is an awesome idea. Frank W. Zammetti wrote: So, the question is, does anyone see this as something interesting? Very. I was also thinking about working on AJAX taglibs using Sarissa [1] (introductory article at

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Woodchuck
sorry, i couldn't resist . actually, why don't we address this problem at the source rather than using this javascript patch solution? (at least this is how i see it) why don't the browser makers build internal mechanisms to allow posting of forms without the need to refresh the html page? why

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Benedict, Paul C
, 2005 11:12 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List; Dakota Jack Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Let me first say that IMHO, introducing AJAX capabilities into the html taglib is an awesome idea. Frank W. Zammetti wrote: So, the question is, does anyone see this as something interesting? Very. I

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
Not sure what to say, Woodchuck, about your suggestion that a request be sent that does not want a response and does not affect the HTML page. What would happen next? And, how? This is perfectly conceivable. Heck, I think that it might be possible as is. But, I don't see this as even

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Hubert Rabago
No problemo. As far as the extension itself is concerned, I'd still be interested in it, but like I mentioned earlier, only as a plugin that doesn't change the base tags. The reasons are many and they are mentioned in the dev thread you started. My main concern is implementation lock-in.

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
SNIP On 4/18/05, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or we could just use ActiveX controls. *psych!* /SNIP Or JavaScript, or Applets, or Flash, or .. but, most importantly, in this thread, AJAX with STRUTS. Jack -- You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it

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