> Hmmm.... I personally can't see much use for AJAX in navigation of the demo > site you provided us with. I rarely see the need for AJAX at all in > navigation.
Right, I don't plan on using ajax for navigation, just the interactive problem solving part. (I think you noticed this below also.) > beandog (Steve Dibb) showed me a wonderful example of how he used sessions > to overcome those scary POST messages upon going "back". It really is > quite cool, and requires no AJAX. Interesting, I'd love to see this. The site does use sessions, but I don't know how to use them to overcome that problem. I suspect doing something with the cache control headers would help, but I don't know. Still, I'd like to be able to not have to hit back several times to get back to the menu though. > Holy cow. Really? AJAX has everything to do with Javascript. I'd > personally be scared to use it if I didn't know what it was doing on the > back-end. Well, I have done a little bit of ajax just playing around, and I did it all by hand with no libraries. So I understand how it works, I just want to use something with most of the bugs already worked out. > I believe that the whole idea behind AJAX is to allow asynchronous > communication between a back-end language (PHP/PERL/Python/etc...) and the > front-end through Javascript. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it would > be at all useful to employ AJAX on a system that didn't need a > backend.....? Let me clarify, some of them looked like they would _only_ work with _their_ backend. I want to use my own backend with some js in front to help it a bit. Thanks for the input though. The site works just fine as it is. However I think there is room for improvement in this respect. I don't want it to break when javascript is disabled. I just want it to feel a little more slick and quicker when it is enabled. Orson PS. just a little bragging, check out the print preview. This is the main reason I like using css layouts. It's flexible. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
