Philip Kilner wrote:
Hi Robert (Jamie?),
Most people call me Jamie, but Robert is fine, and it's what it says on all my official documents.
AHAH does not seem to be much discussed here - it's worth reading: -
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah & http://www.gizax.it/ahahsection/
(I have based my work on the script in the second link)
Short version: uses AJAX-like technique of rewriting the HTML using JavaScript, but returns pure HTML as opposed to XML or JSON, so trivial to implement, and can degrade gracefully.
Very useful. I've based my system on the first link because I didn't need to use POSTs, I just add ?foo=bar to the end of the URL and get it as normal. I added the ability to load a list of urls and element ids one after the other, then only activate the submit button at the bottom of the page when the whole form was loaded. This means the top of the page loads quickly, and the rest loads section by section before people scroll down to it. I was thinking I would have to do something like this, and your links made it really easy. Robert (Jamie) Munro