I love the frames/flash/ajax technologies, but only when they are
implemented to their strengths. I don't think navigation is one of them.
-- Cole
Quoting Orson Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
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