I would love to see the DHTML/AJAX stuff in action, if it's convenient to make available as a demo page. Thanks, Joe. On 3/30/06, T. E. Pickering <tim@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > that said, interface stuff i'm currently working on is utilizing AJAX > techniques to interface with php and ruby back-ends. so far i'm > finding this a lot more flexible in many ways than using some widget > set thanks to the extreme mutability of DHTML. i also like the fact > that you can write one piece of software rather than two. the back-end > generates its own interface. for other things there's a degree of > clumsiness when dealing with the browser sandbox and trying to get it > to interact with other things on the system. javascript can't do > system calls while system calls from php/cgi run as user apache. this > is a deal-breaker for some of our stuff, but not an issue for many > other things. > > tim > > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | T. E. Pickering, Ph.D. | MMT Observatory | > | Assoc. Staff Scientist | 933 N. Cherry Ave. | > | tim@xxxxxxxx (520) 626-3755 | Tucson, AZ 85721 | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Ok, I see you know what you're doing :-) > > Either that or I've gotten pretty good at faking it. > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
