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Rey... Jim Davis wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:08 AM >>To: CF-Talk >>Subject: Re: Ajax and CFCs >> >>On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:04, Micha Schopman wrote: >> >>>Microsoft provides a free webservice.htc to accommodate SOAP operations >>>with Javascript. >> >>..htc aren't real web pages. > > > Well - they're not web pages at all. ;^) > > "HTC" is a "Hyper Text Component" - basically an encapsulated behavior. It > can't be used on it's own at all. HTCs are used to extend HTML pages and > HTA applications. > > There are still several problems with the HTC however (I evaluated it > extensively): > > +) It doesn't work with CF web services. It just doesn't. There's a hacked > version floating around from Bill Hepola that fixes some of the problems... > but even then you can only pass simple data (the complex data structures in > SOAP differ between CF and .NET and only the .NET ones are supported). > > +) It only works on IE 5 or above. Nothing else. (This actually would have > been fine for me since I'm actually building an HTA... but the other > problems scuttled it.) > > +) MS no longer supports this component. They also no longer support the > replacement for this component (the SOAP com library). As of now they SOAP > natively in .NET and that's it - no more extensions/libraries. > > +) Using this extension is tedious. HTC's are DHTML behaviors (actually a > great concept unique to IE 5+) so you must link the behavior to the style of > an element. This works and all but the forced coupling of what should be a > low-level transfer library to the interface seems very odd. There really > nothing in the code that couldn't have been done in "regular" JavaScript... > unless they just used an HTC to explicitly force the idea of IE 5+. > > All told I worked for several days trying to get this HTC to work with even > simple CF or Java services and got no joy. > > But if you're doing IE 5+ development against a .NET server it should > actually be quite nice to work with. ;^) > > Jim Davis > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:215632 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
