On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 16:21 -0700, Eric Rasmussen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> This is a long email so I hope you'll bear with me! If you code ajax
> applications or have an interest in learning, it'd be great to get
> your feedback on my questions/ideas/assumptions below for a tutorial
> I'm working on.
>
>
> 1) Assumption: you're primarily using javascript to build an
> event-based system, where in response to clicking links or submitting
> forms, the javascript code carries out an action and possibly modifies
> the page based on the results
>
>
> 2) Assumption: developers commonly create separate event listeners and
> functions for each action using javascript framework-specific code,
> rather than coding a javascript layer between your app and the
> framework code
>
>
> 3) Coding your own event registering function, handling events under
> one main listener, and even abstracting away the already reduced
> framework code for XHR calls, is a good way to reduce event listeners
> and keep the application scalable/maintainable. Below is some
> theoretical code to show how you might register events that will
> operate under a single event listener and could be backed by any 3rd
> party javascript frameworks/plugins/widgets/etc.
>
>
> // when someone clicks aLink, your application fills the html results
> into the element with the id "content"
> MyApp.register( { url : aLink, responseType : 'HTML', fillElement :
> 'content' } );
>
>
> // custom function someFunction handles a JSON response from the
> server when a link matching linkPattern is clicked
> MyApp.register( { url : linkPattern, responseType : 'JSON', handler :
> someFunction } );
>
>
> // on submit of form id formID, function makeDateWidget handles the
> html response and runs code to load a date picker
> MyApp.register( { form: 'formID', responseType : 'HTML', handler :
> makeDateWidget } );
>
>
> 4) The missing parts here (how the register function works and how the
> pyramid code supports it) would be the focus of the tutorial, so is
> this what people are looking for in an ajax + pyramid tutorial? What
> other goals/questions/issues are out there?
This is probably not very on-topic, but pyramid_jqm (jQuery Mobile
scaffolding for Pyramid) has some examples of how I personally handle
AJAX calls that jam content into the DOM:
http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid_jqm/dev/
- C
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