Re: [Fofredux-devel] Ajax support?

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

It is a coding effort, but no special server side stuff. In fact, the
point of Javascript (and hence Ajax) is that there is logic and code
that runs on the client's browser, so it's faster. Furthermore, any
requests to the server would happen 'in the background' instead of
causing the page to disappear and reload.

The types of things I'm thinking about are:
1) Marking read, saving, tagging feed items. This would happen inline
while you are reading the items
2) Feed Updates in the background. therefore you could continue to
read your items and new items would show up as unread without having
to press "update all"

Those are really the only 2 Ajax things that would be really useful
within the context of FoFRedux at this point. The only ramifications
being a little more code to develop and maintain for devs, and testing
for backwards compatibility to older/embedded browsers.

Andy


On 1/12/06, Miles Beck <mil...@gm...> wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Andrew Turner (nilspace) <nil...@us...> wro=
te:
> > What do you all think regarding Ajax (or Ajah) support? I personally
> > like the prototype/behavior/rico stack. It's widely used, heavily
> > supported & dev'd, and has *Tons* of great features.
> >
> > However, my concern is losing the simple cleanliness of FoFRedux. Any
> > Javascript support will also support non-JS degradation. And there are
> > some things that adding Ajax style support for would be really nice:
> > marking an item as read/saved/tagged and having it happen inline
> > without a page refresh. Refreshing feeds without having to wait while
> > reading, etc.
> >
> > It's a big architecture, moving forward kind of decision and wanted to
> > get some feedback.
>
> For what it's worth. What I have seen of Ajax so far I have really
> liked. Not being a developer though I can't answer what ramifications
> a change like this may have.
>
> Does Ajax require any special server software?
>
>
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