On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Jeff Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom Jackson wrote:
>
> > Wait, I thought mashups were simply http requests from javascript to
> > update parts of a web page. You return either javascript, html or an xml
> > document, which is probably a worthless option.
> > Maybe I got this wrong, but AOLserver should be able to step into a
> > mashup instantly.
> >
>
> What you describe is ajax ("asynchronous javascript with xml", although it
> seems no one uses xml anymore) plus dhtml (dynamic html) and yes, aolserver
> can certainly provide that without too much trouble.
>
> Many (probably most) mashups make use of ajax also, but the mashup part is
> that they take data from multiple sources - say, from google maps and
> craigslist - and put it together in some novel new way. A mashup can be
> done entirely or mostly on the client in javascript but a few things like
> same-source security, data storage, and having to work entirely in
> javascript within a browser make it convenient for the server to get
> involved. Which is why there are the php client libraries I mentioned for
> flickr, twitter, facebook, etc...
>
> The wikipedia entry on mashups gives a better description (and
> references!) than my blurb here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29
>
> We wrote a facebook API for OpenACS. It has some hooks into the OpenACS
database api and OpenACS utilities but its pretty simple overall.
http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/openacs-4/packages/facebook-api/
Dave
> -J
>
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