Matt, Ryan,

I just read Matt's post and linked article (3 times). I am afraid I  
don't get it. Not because I think it is a bad idea but I lack the  
understanding and background to appreciate what you are doing or  
suggesting.

If you had to sum up in three of four sentences the Ajax service what  
would you say.

I am trying to get my head around Javascript. Been reading a lot but  
find the information to fall into two camps.

1. The cut and paste camp - They provide a cookbook with step by step  
instructions.
2. The object oriented camp - This camp has a very advanced audience.

I find myself wanting to be in the company of camp #2, and out of  
camp #1. Kind of like Junior High. That awkward stage where you don't  
really know what to do so you just do stupid, obnoxious things.

What would you guys recommend for me as I try to advance my  
javascript skills?

Thanks,

Terry Riegel

p.s. Ryan, how can I learn more about webwidgetry and mashupstudio?




On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Ryan Gahl wrote:

> Hey Matt, just read the post. Good stuff man. It looks like you're  
> making some of the same natural progressions towards a complete RIA/ 
> widget framework that we made while creating WebWidgetry and  
> MashupStudio. You're definitely doing cool stuff!!
>
> The next steps are adding support for multiple transport types  
> (script insertion, iframe, etc..), garbage collection services  
> (becomes important for long running single page apps in order to  
> not have degraded performance as elements and event handlers  
> continue to come in and out of existence), binding to data feeds  
> and web services, etc...
>
> BTW - thanks for the link to my blog on your custom events post :-)
>
> If you ever want to chat off-list about this stuff, I would love to  
> talk widgets with you, share implementation ideas, demo our tech,  
> etc... just send me a gmail chat or an email.
>
> On 7/12/07, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>          In building RIA's i've run into quite a few pitfalls myself,
> and as everyone says this technology is so new that no one really
> knows "best practices" yet, but I think i may have developed something
> worth noting.  I have certainly experienced a benefit from the
> architecture of an "Ajax Service"  I've written a complete article
> about it including example code.  As this idea is so new I havn't had
> much time to really kick the tires so I'm really looking forward to
> what this community thinks about the idea.
>
> http://positionabsolute.net/blog/2007/07/javascript-service.php
>
> Cheers,
>        Matt
>
>
> http://www.nthpenguin.com
> --
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> >


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