I don't know if anyone has noticed, but after a few updates, LoadPanel now
works in IE5, NS4, and NS6 on both Mac and PC, and IE4 PC (yes, it does work
in IE5 for Mac!). While LoadPanel certainly has it's limitations, because of
it's simplicity it's quite easy to get working in lots of browsers.
I've thought of a few other options for doing this, using a hidden frame,
but using the LoadPanel LoadQueue to manage requests would possibly work
better than LoadPanel, the catch being that all the document you wish to
load needs to be encapsulated in a form textarea so Netscape 4 can access
it. This method would work in the widest range of browsers, probably more
than are actually supported by the DynAPI.
Another option would be to use Flash 5. I'm not entirely sure that it would
work, but it does support Javascript<->Flash communication, and can load
remote XML documents (as XHTML is valid XML I figure this would work), and
in Ray's scenario of browsers not being shipped with Java, Flash is much
smaller to download. Of course IE5 Mac would yet again be left out, no
Javascript->Flash communication there.
I'm not trying to discourage Michael's or anyone elses efforts, the more
ways of loading remote content, the better!
Cameron.
> > Have a look at the attached code. I have been able to get it working on
> ns4 (all OSs) IE5 & 5.5 Win (haven't tested it on ie4). IE5 on mac's are
> unable to interact with applets and as such will not work and i'm not sure
> how to get around this.
> >
> > I don't see any way of using the load panel to load content in
> the fashion
> required by the JSRS. this is because once you load the content
> into a load
> panel in ns4, there is NO way of reading it or altering it.
> >
> > Since my code already works with the API, I see it as being a better
> alternative for loading code and interacting with servers. I'm in the
> process of getting it to submit a form using the POST method
> instead of GET.
> This will allow for more than 3k of data to be sent. (works in IE
> but NS is
> having problems with security restrictions in Java).
> >
> > If you really wanted, it would be possible to build version
> that used Java
> directly in NS without the need for an applet. This would give less error
> detection but may be faster than the applet.
> >
> > It could be possible to use the JSRS code to allow for Mozilla to do the
> work to get around java security issues. Unfortunately once you
> start using
> anything but java, you are restricted to 3k data size for sending infor
> using a URL.
> >
> > "Henrik Våglin" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Brent
> > >
> > > I don't remember if I ever got to answer up on this before, so I hope
> you forgive this late response.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I'm most interested in trying at a merge between your JSRS and
> the DynAPI. I was about to do some kind of serverside companion to DynAPI
> anyway, because I'm almost certain I would have extensive use of
> it I figure
> and i figure your JSRS would spare me a lot of hassle if i could get into
> how it works properly. I know ASP and how to script it with jscript which
> i've understood you do too. If we get JSRS and ASP working with DynAPI - I
> thinik it won't be long before someone comes up with ports for other
> serverside flavours too.
> > >
> > > I've taken a quick glance at jsrsClient.js file and from what i can
> tell, there's not very much needed to do to get it DynAPI compaible. Iwill
> try and do some kind of initial port forover, but basically I see it like
> this -and this applies very well to the model I have been pondering of
> implementing in even before I was aware of your project:
> > >
> > > - the 'jsrsContextObj' and container could be ported to a DynAPI
> LoadPanel, which basically is a dynlayer with the ability to load pages
> into.
> > >
> > > - DynAPI uses prototyping, so a lot of what is functions in JSRS would
> better be ported to the prototyping model of either of the above proposed
> objects.
> > >
> > > This is what i've figured so far. Does it make sense to you?
> I'd like to
> establish some kind of common understanding with you before I get
> in deep in
> trying to do the actual porting.
> > >
> > > Henrik Våglin [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brent Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:41 PM
> > > Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Loading External Content (Remote Scripting)
> > >
> > > > Hello all;
> > > >
> > > > I've read some of the dynapi-dev archives about dynamic loading of
> external
> > > > data and I think my JSRS JavaScript Remote Scripting
> library might be
> well
> > > > suited to be used with DynAPI. Not having used DynAPI, I can't
> immediately
> > > > give you an example of them working together, but I expect an
> implementation
> > > > would be trivial to those familiar with both.
> > > >
> > > > JSRS is a library which uses hidden layers or iframes to
> make remote
> calls
> > > > to functions on a server page. It's known to work with IE4, IE5 on
> Windows,
> > > > Linux, Mac and NS4, NS6, Mozilla on Windows and Linux. While
> originally
> > > > written to work with IIS and ASP, a recent IBM
> Developerworks article
> by
> > > > Erik Hatcher
> > > > (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-resc/?dwzone=web)
> provides
> > > > a Java servlet which extends the server-side to Apache/Tomcat. It
> should be
> > > > fairly easy to get PHP, Perl CGI, JSP etc server
> implementations going
> as
> > > > well.
> > > >
> > > > It's in production use in Canada, the US, Australia, the
> Netherlands,
> > > > Austria and likely other places as well.
> > > >
> > > > JSRS is open and free, so if anyone wants to build upon it or pull
> it
> > > > apart to merge it with DynAPI, I'd be glad to help.
> > > >
> > > > You can find JSRS and other Remote Scripting info at
> > > > http://www.ashleyit.com/rs .
> > > >
> > > > - Brent -
> > > >
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