Thanks tedd. basically page refreshin is not a problem for me as it in intranet application. however, AJAX offers some really nice thing and 1 from my point of view it's to reduce the network traffic by limiting what should be refresh/downloaded. in that way i think it is interesting. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 12:10 PM +0200 10/4/08, Alain Roger wrote: > >> HI, >> >> i'm currently working on some web application and i would like to know >> what >> is the best way to do what i want. >> basically like all application i have a menu and based on selected item >> menu >> i want to display a page (basically 50 % of this new page is DB >> result/grid. >> >> As usual i have 2 divs, one for the menu one for the content of DB to >> display. >> i would like to know if it's not better to use AJAX to load the content of >> the second div (DB result and other stuff) instead to every time load a >> new >> page which load menu and content of DB ? >> >> what are your experiences on such thing ? >> thx. >> >> -- >> Alain >> > > Alain: > > The only difference the user experiences between having AJAX, or not, is > refreshing the page. If page refresh is not a problem, then don't complicate > your life. On the other hand, if page refresh is annoying, or not wanted, > then AJAX is you're only solution. > > But as it has been said before, not all users have javascript turned on and > as such AJAX will not work -- after all, it javascript. > > However, there are way to degrade gracefully from a AJAX site to a normal > site. Google > javascript graceful degradation" for references. > > Please note, going the AJAX route does not make your coding simpler -- it's > a different critter. But it does (with help from jQuery et al) offer > exciting new ways to present data. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP3 PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.4 C# 2005-2008
