[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-30 Thread maku
On 30 Mai, 01:19, Meredith Gregory lgreg.mered...@gmail.com wrote: Frameworks like Lift can alleviate some of the problem, but you really need a good, statically typed language on the client side. A few people are beginning to take this problem on. It'd be great to see a ScalaScript for rich

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread David Pollak
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Jeremy Day jeremy@gmail.com wrote: All, I have a slightly related question. I'm new to the list and a complete newbie to Lift (having only discovered it a couple of days ago), so forgive me for the potentially silly question. Can you use Lift with Flex

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread David Pollak
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Joe Wass j...@folktunefinder.com wrote: This may be heresy on this list, but I'll ask it anyway. A general point for discussion which I'm raising because the Lift Book mentions AJAX early on in the PocketChange app. How important is AJAX and all the

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread Timothy Perrett
Appreciate you are a busy man David, but from a community perspective I think it would be awesome if you could pour some of your brain into a whitepaper on this subject ­ your very right, its a key take away and an important part of lifts ³sales pitch² as it were. Cheers, Tim On 29/05/2009

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread marius d.
You can use Lift perfectly fine without Ajax, javaScript or even cookies. If you're turning off cookies from the container relative paths for links, forms etc. will be provided with JSESSIONID quantity for you so you don't have to do anything. This is otherwise known as URL rewriting. So you can

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday May 29 2009, Joe Wass wrote: ... Have I missed the point of Lift entirely? Am I in a small minority? Am I crazy? Perhaps. Perhaps. Probably not (but who really knows?) Seriously, my interest in Lift (and Grails before it—don't shoot me) is in providing what I call BBIs

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread Charles F. Munat
Lift makes AJAX easy, but Lift has nothing to do with AJAX. Lift makes a lot of things easy. I've built half a dozen sites in Lift so far, with several more in the works, and most of them use no AJAX at all. That said, there is a lot to be said for AJAX when used properly. I think you're way

[Lift] Re: How important is AJAX to you?

2009-05-29 Thread Meredith Gregory
Joe, i love questions like this: 'what are the real requirements?' i have no particular interest in technology like AJAX -- except as a means to an end. i need to be able to build sites that are the web's equivalent of CSCW apps from the late 80s/early 90s. In the web apps i'm working on users