On May 30, 2:38 am, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, You're not going to like this answer very much but:
no :) see below. > It seems unnecessarily cruel to burden your users with the wait time of > downloading an XSLT transform engine when you could do such processing > on your server. The thing is... I actually cannot! Otherwise I wouldn't go through all these hoops, I am not crazy ;) Long story short: this is a temporary solution as we cannot have any server-side code while waiting on some upcoming upgrade of our infrastructure and servers. Painful, but I don't have much choice. It's a low-tech approach that satisfies the crossed-requirements of having to develop a new website without having anything permanent or stable to host it on. > I know it's cool to do XSLT processing on the client, but this app > doesn't sound like it's worth punishing your users by asking them to > wait while downloading "all that stuff" It will pretty much be only menu descriptions and some content loaded in the background. >From what I tested, this is actually not bad at all, and if you have a normal connection you wouldn't really notice a difference. It is a news-centric website, so most of the contents are rather short items composed mainly of text. Therefore it is possible to preload the next hits in the background (or at least, the predictable ones). > FWIW, I do this in one app: a report generator that constructs > client-side XML, sends it to a server, then gets back HTML. The report > generation process is iterative by design. I only want to transfer > human-generated content over the wire. This design also gives me history > support "for free", as I can cache previous reports on the server and > reload them when requested. Thanks anyway. -- LaurentMalvert Analyst Programmer Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Office of Institutional Advancement p: +61-2-9850-1385 m: +61-4-1095-7130 e:[email protected] w:http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/ CRICOS Provider No 00002J --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
