b,
Essentially you can build a whole application in <!--flash--> [some kind of DHTML type language] which gets downloaded to the browser once and then requests back to the server when it needs new info [or to post info] - minimising the load on the server (as only data is exchanged once loaded - formatting that data is left to your javascript running inside<!-- flash--> [the browser]).
This right here says it all - these are my goals, you nailed it. And you go even further!
>The advantages are smaller load on the server, yeah, cool, whatever...
>no flicker between pages loading,
killer. i love it. absolutely. the work of the future. this i must have.
If you're looking for an open source solution to this problem (which I understand has recently garnered its own supercool buzzword: Ajax), you might want to look at OpenThought ( http://www.openthought.net/ ). We use it here to do all the things you mention and it's pretty easy (by which I mean most of the hard work is done for you).
HTH.
-- Buddy
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