I do have a tendency of complicating things hehe ;) I'll forget the xml then and use an xhtml file with the split.
Thanks Christophe for your reasoning. :) 2007/2/19, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hey Esther, > > Esther Fuldauer a écrit : > > I was thinking more of another case I have where I need to update the > > html each time the page gets loaded. If the pieces I need to rotate on > > the page are more than 20, how do you suggest I go about it? Also an > > html for each piece? > > It really depends on the semantics of your bits. I mean, eventually > they're HTML in the page. So how are they represented originally? Are > those static XHTML fragments? If yes, don't bother: get them! > > If you worry about the 2-resource-per-domain HTTP recommendation, you > may decide to concatenate them in a file with delimiters, fetch the > whole thing, split client-side (String.split is there for you), and do > updates yourself instead of using Ajax.Updater (e.g. use Ajax.Request > with a custom onSuccess callback that splits, then loops over fragments > and containers and calls update manually). > > The short point is: if there is no *compelling* reason to use something > else than HTML for your fragments, then *go HTML*. Actually, go XHTML > (no ambiguity makes for faster, more reliable parsing and DOM building > by the browser). > > -- > Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Esther Fuldauer Web Developer & Designer tlf. 972355421 movil 679066844 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" 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/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
