GarageGames.com AJAX'ified
by Rick Overman · 02/13/2006 (3:28 pm) · 23 comments
This web update contains the soft launch of an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) library that I have been working with. If you care it's cool, if you don't you'll never notice, because the page should "just do" what you expect it to.
AJAX is the buzzword of the web with everyone using "it" for all the wrong reasons in all the wrong places. I finally found a nice small "library" without all the framework baggage that lets me inject a little RPC anywhere I want without all the overhead of most the "libraries" floating around the web.
So after too many lost posts -- rating resources and the notification checkbox are finally AJAX background calls! I have tested this with Firefox, IE, Safari and Opera! If you have any problems, please let me know.
If this test goes well I will be expanding into other areas of the site, form posing comes to mind (no more broken back button). Suggestions welcome.
--Rick
AJAX is the buzzword of the web with everyone using "it" for all the wrong reasons in all the wrong places. I finally found a nice small "library" without all the framework baggage that lets me inject a little RPC anywhere I want without all the overhead of most the "libraries" floating around the web.
So after too many lost posts -- rating resources and the notification checkbox are finally AJAX background calls! I have tested this with Firefox, IE, Safari and Opera! If you have any problems, please let me know.
If this test goes well I will be expanding into other areas of the site, form posing comes to mind (no more broken back button). Suggestions welcome.
--Rick
#22
If someone actually has a fix to the community page that works well in just Opera I would like to see it. Opera 9TP allows site specific style sheets and javascript. Right now I just switch to User Mode.
02/17/2006 (10:46 pm)
Sounds good. Time to try it out.If someone actually has a fix to the community page that works well in just Opera I would like to see it. Opera 9TP allows site specific style sheets and javascript. Right now I just switch to User Mode.
#23
04/16/2006 (3:13 pm)
My recommendation: drop the X from AJAX and replace it with the J (JSON). Less bytes to transfer and parses much faster than XML.
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