A-ha! Or, I mean, AHAH. Keith Devens describes:The idea is, it's basically Ajax, but instead of grabbing arbitrary XML and processing it on the client-side with Javascript or XSLT and inserting things into the DOM, you just grab bits of (X)HTML from the server and inject them directly into your page. So, the client side does much less logic and merely needs to say "replace the content in the element with this ID with the (X)HTML at this U Slightly longer discussion here: AJAX vs. AHAH.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Since most AJAX applications (webpages?) seem to be constructed in such a way that the client (the javascript on the web page) and server parts are both under the control of the same designers, you don't really need the layer of abstraction provided by XML (over just pulling the blobs out of a database and wrapping them in HTML.) If the server didn't know how the client would format the data then the XML steps would be necessary. But does this ever happen with in AJAX setups? I like the simplicity of AHAH.
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This makes a lot of sense to me. Since most AJAX applications (webpages?) seem to be constructed in such a way that the client (the javascript on the web page) and server parts are both under the control of the same designers, you don't really need the layer of abstraction provided by XML (over just pulling the blobs out of a database and wrapping them in HTML.) If the server didn't know how the client would format the data then the XML steps would be necessary. But does this ever happen with in AJAX setups? I like the simplicity of AHAH.
- jim 12-31-2005 2:56 am