You don't want the client and the server communicating. That would open up all
sorts of security concerns for people. I don't see any way to use JavaScript
and CF together any more than you can already. It already seems pretty easy to
pass info back and forth when necessary.
tom
www.basic-ultradev.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "JoshMEagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Allarie/Macromedia ColdFusion Feature Suggestion
> Thanks for the smart-ass answer Philip. Sometimes you can't pass variables
> back to the server because you don't want to reload the page. Sometimes
> everything isn't in a Form>Submit>Form>Submit framework.
>
> "This is the kind of thing that Netscape was trying to do with LiveConnect.
> However, as we know the W3C didn't think much of this as a standard so it
> didn't go anywhere. You could do some pretty cool things with it though." -
> from Lanney Udey - Apparantly at least one other person thought this would
> be a good idea.
>
> Could it not be accomplished via an ActiveX control? Could the <cfscript>
> features not be extended to make the bridge between the client and the
> server? Sort of a client-side process of CF that can communicate with the
> server side? I realize that the CF gets processed on the server while the JS
> gets processed on the client, but why couldn't CF be extended to communicate
> across the two?
>
> "... CF server, is it meant to be psychic and predict which of the thousands
> of users have which JavaScript variables - and what if the user has
> JavaScript disabled..." Well, there is the CFID/CFToken that could be passed
> so that the server could "predict" who has JS variables ... the information
> would inevitably have to be sent to the server, but there could be some kind
> of unseen resubmittal process that would allow CF to reprocess areas of the
> page within a <cfscript> tag. If the client doesn't have JavaScript enabled,
> then things like <cfform> validation wouldn't work either. That's something
> you always have to deal with is the existance of JS. Obviously if you're
> using JS in a page you've thought this end of things out in the first place.
>
> "CF7, the psychic platform that knows what you want before you even know
> yourself... a bit of quantum programming required, and don't forget to
> upgrade to Windows QT - the Quantum version of NT for Quantum machines." -
> For yoUr feciCious comebacK - You Ought repUdiate.
>
> Joshua Miller
> Web Development
> Eagle Technologies Group, Inc.
> Business Solutions for the Next Generation
> www.eagletgi.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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