Thanks for the advice Leon, will do a bit more digging of my own, but also rethink approach.
I don't need to support updates, but an XMLHttpRequest could still do the trick. Was this the right forum to ask this question? (new to the Haskell community generally and Snap/heist etc in particular) cheers, Todd On 25/04/2011, at 7:46 PM, Leon Smith wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Todd Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd have to dig into this issue; sadly I've not made effective use of > Heist on my current project. And that's not saying anything bad about > Heist, but rather my (lack of) skills relating to frontend work, and > my current priorities. > >> I guess more broadly, am I taking the right approach to this? >> > > I'd ask, why not use an XMLHttpRequest to get the JSON data? JQuery > has functions to perform ajax requests with less hassle; and many > other libraries have comparable functions for convenience. > > My suggestion does have the downside that this is two round trips from > the client to the server instead of one. But it can save bandwidth > and processing over time if you find that you need to regenerate the > entire page several times due to that one bit of data changing. > >> Appreciate any guidance, cheers, Todd >> _______________________________________________ >> Snap mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/snap >> _______________________________________________ Snap mailing list [email protected] http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/snap
