Re: [CODE4LIB] Access 2007 summary

2007-11-29 Thread Pearson Dana
I found this posted somewhere. http://tinyurl.com/2pdcxh I watched Tennant's interesing discussion of WorldCat Grid and planned to view others available. dana [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Andrew Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of or have an in-depth review of the access 2007

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Jesse Prabawa
Hi Eric, Have you considered using a Javascript Library to handle these details? I would recommend that you refactor your code to use one so that you can concentrate on what you actually want to do instead. This way you can also avoid having browser incompatabilities that are already solved if

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Godmar Back
You're using IE, which means you need to issue the open() before adding the onreadystatechange handler. Otherwise, open will trigger a call to your handler, and IE's implementation won't have reset the readyState to 0. In either event, you should double-check that the status of the request is 200

[CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Why doesn't my httpRequest Javascript function return unless I add an alert? Grrr. I am writing my first AJAX-y function called add_tag. This is how it is suppose to work: 1. define a username 2. create an httpRequest object 3. define what it is suppose to happen when it gets a response

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Ewout Van Troostenberghe
To point out why the use of a Javascript framework is important, let me put your code into jQuery (http://jquery.com) $.get('index.cgi', {cmd:'add_tag', username:'username'}, function(html) { // do whatever you want here }) PrototypeJS has a similar, easy to use construct. In the end, using

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Eric - Have a look at some of the ajax functions I wronte for VuFind - there are some almost identical function calls that work just fine. http://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/vufind/web/services/Record/ajax.js?revision=106 See function SaveTag Also - You might want to consider

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Keith Jenkins
jQuery++ I like to do things from scratch, but have never regretted moving to jQuery. Whatever time it takes you to check it out will be paid back a thousand times, at least. Keith On 11/29/07, Ewout Van Troostenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To point out why the use of a Javascript

Re: [CODE4LIB] Access 2007 summary

2007-11-29 Thread Tom Keays
Excellent. Will the presentations be done up as MP3 as they've been in previous years? Last year, both slides and mp3 links were posted on the Access 2006 homepage http://www.access2006.uottawa.ca/index.php?page_id=10 and made available as a podcast via Odeo. http://odeo.com/channel/140930/view

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Don't leave out the Yahoo YUI library as something to consider. Whats nice is that you don't have to load the entire library as one big huge js file - you can pick and choose what libraries you want to include in your page minimizing the javascript filesize. If you want to have one little js

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr [resolved]

2007-11-29 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Why doesn't my httpRequest Javascript function return unless I add an alert? Grrr. I have resolved my problem, but I'm not exactly sure how. First of all, my httpRequest (XMLHttpRequest) code was just fine. I made no significant changes

[CODE4LIB] Position Available for Technology Librarian (San Diego, CA)

2007-11-29 Thread Patty De Anda
LAC seeks a Technology Librarian for our client in San Diego, CA. The Librarian will be developing and maintaining databases and applications, integrating current and future systems and maintaining and trouble shooting technical aspects of library information tools. Their main responsibility will