[Zope] AJAX and Zope

[Lennart Regebro]

On 5/24/06, Pascal Peregrina <Pperegrina at lastminute.com> wrote:
> By Zope objects I meant:
>
> You've got a page template for example, and you include such an "AJAX enabled object", basically rendering an HTML fragment, and the resulting page will include the page template code + the fragment (similar to a macro call), but will also include the needed javascript code to handle the asynchronous communication.

That is a macro call. There is no difference. It just that the macro
includes the HTML needed to suck in the JS library you use.

> Then another thing would be something like a PythonScript object (so you define python code and return python structures) and get it rendered as javascript to be included in somepage for processing the data returned by an asynchronous XML-RPC call to Zope within the browser.

Thare has been discussions and efforts to make a library where you can
write python code and get Ajax out, yes. It is very non-trivial. :)

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