On 7/9/06, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so in Ajax world, what is the perfered defacto method of formatting > data to use in Ajax code? Is there one so that any member of my team > of developers can quickly modify the code?
>From what I've seen, there is no de facto method, but then again, there's not a downside to that for me either. Depending on what my functions need to do, I'll return whatever data format fits that best. 90% of the time I use JSON just because there's no need to parse the data and it's a relatively small package. > > One point I'd add is dev speed and app size. For a large app that has > drag+drop, charting, rich forms, messaging, etc Flex seems to have > Ajax beat in dev time. Add to this you really don't need to worry > about browser versions that much. I've been playing around with Flex the past couple of days, I've even purchased Flex Builder to use in an upcoming project. I really do like it, but I still see some faults. #1 - The loading screen. When someone goes to a web page, they don't want the page to load up just to post another message saying "Loading xx%" #2 - File size. Unless I'm doing something wrong, the file sizes on just the lesson projects are relatively huge. 125K for the smallest and 244K for the largest. This cuts out dialup people. My deployment plans are almost exclusively intranet. #3 - Flash Player 9.0 required. Yes, I know, Flash is installed on 97% of all computers. But not Flash 9.0. Also, as with our organization, we're starting to lock down users' computers even more so that Flash isn't upgradeable by anyone other than a "power user" or higher. #4 - Components. Flex ships with some really neat components, but I've already noticed some things that I'd like to have. With javascript/AJAX, typically someone has already figured out the need and more than likely it's open sourced. With Flex, I'm probably going to have to program something with the timeline. Uggh! -- There more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line. And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:37/messageid:2969 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:37 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.37
