On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:55:50PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Matthew Palmer"> > > AJAX itself is a pretty simple concept -- you make HTTP requests via > > JavaScript in the browser via an XmlHttpRequest object, and then parse the > > results and do crazy crap with it. > > This is an important thing to remember - AJAX is *not* just dynamic HTML. If > someone asks you to "make it all pretty with AJAX", start wondering why the > person finds HTTP transfer of XML so attractive
"Mmmm, that asynchronousness just gets me all warm and fuzzy!" "Transfer some XML NOW!" Nope, I just don't see it. Must be getting too old for it or something. > (and why they're giving you such a difficult design brief). Why am I thinking that some partially-clued management type has already decreed to some poor sod that they need to send all of the JS and such for a site via AJAX, so that the wily hackers can't just download directly off their site and steal their "valuable corporate content" (which was, no doubt, cribbed from somewhere else anyway, and which ISN'T F**KING CONTENT, ANYWAY, YOU STUPID TOSSER!) Sorry, got a bit carried away there. Bad memories. - Matt _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
