I forgot to mention FusionScript -- although I have no idea where that project's going -- or gone as the case may be... I'm under the impression that making the later versions commercial pretty much killed its advancement -- at least I remember hearing someone tell me the author gave a presentation in which he mentioned regretting not leaving it open-source ultimately.
>> It's worth pointing out that similar DHTML interfaces >> have been around for >> many, many years. We've been building interfaces like >> this before the term >> DHTML existed, using hidden frames in Netscape 3.0. Being >> able to use >> XmlHTTPRequest is just icing on the cake, really. > Totally - Pongo (or something like that) was doing it with > hidden > frames and wddx I think for quite some time. Dan Switzer had one he called "Client/Server Gateway JSAPI" ... part of the problem with names -- I'd bet it would have had more ubiquity if it had a simpler name like qForms ... Matt Walker also had something similar he called Simple Remote Scripting (SRS). As names go, AJAX is a good name not only because it's short and easy to say but also because it has the kind of _sound_ that people remember (psychology of sound -- like the psychology of color). The onTap framework has some tools that accomplish the same ends, I just don't see the need for XmlHTTPRequest as a transport medium. Part of the reason I wasn't too hip to use Dan Switzer's API in spite of it being a pretty small library... I'd think you'd only need or want to use XML if you planned to send data between different domains hosted on separate servers, rather than within an individual application where it seems to me it would be much more efficient to _not_ need to continaully serialize and deserialize XML packets. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p49777853/ http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4806 http://www.fusiontap.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:199207 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
