Alain Roger wrote:
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
this is a standard response for me recently; but have you looked in
to using flex 3 to build the clientside?
additionally ajax's main benefit (in my mind) is that it allows you
to pull down/update only the data you need, and not the whole page -
often this means you can skip out a large part of the templating and
make the php server side scripts so much lighter; very beneficial
when polling. Other than that, as everyone has mentioned - it's
mainly a cosmetic thing.
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Without mixing themes (flex in PHP forum) flex is similar to AS3, no ?
yes, flex is "flash for developers"; the main language is AS3 and it
outputs swf's; flex is basically a program which allows you to use mix
of pre-made ui elements & classes, css and AS3 to quickly make great RIA's.
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