Re: Use of Javascript [was] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-05-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 5/2/05, Sergey Livanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I liked the smartclient technology very much! It's great! > Just wondering if there will be a similar possibility in > Java Server Faces? > Can I combine the capabilities of JSF and AJAX ? Yes. The general idea is that you encapsulate the

Re: Use of Javascript [was] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-05-02 Thread Sergey Livanov
I liked the smartclient technology very much! It's great! Just wondering if there will be a similar possibility in Java Server Faces? Can I combine the capabilities of JSF and AJAX ? RR> Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote the following on 4/19/2005 5:30 AM: >> I also think that a well-designed web

Use of Javascript [was] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-05-02 Thread Rick Reumann
Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote the following on 4/19/2005 5:30 AM: I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Sorry to jump on the train late, but the above is completely BS. If you want to use standard HTML, then there will be some things you will HAVE to do with Javasc

Re: [OT] [Friday] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Weber
Heh. Normally I hate stuff like this, but for some reason, that one was so silly it just cracked me up. Must be because I just woke up. :) Erik Vic Cekvenich (netsql) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all salient points have been made. Agree. It's almost friday: http://www.moronland.com/i

Re: [OT] [Friday] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all salient points have been made. Agree. It's almost friday: http://www.moronland.com/image.php?media=Apple%20Weed .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

[OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread DGraham
dead and needn't be flogged any more. Dennis "Vic Cekvenich (netsql)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/21/2005 08:58 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" To user@struts.apache.org cc Subject Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Craig McClanahan wrote: The 3000 or so people that are here want to be able to ask questions about using Struts IMO, using Struts with client side technologies such as .js, dojo and ajax is on topic. .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-21 Thread David Suarez
ds...djsuarez -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:31 PM To: David Suarez Cc: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! David Suarez wrote: > Saw the flood of these AJAX messages and was interested so I

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
What are you talking about Axel? On 4/20/05, Axel Sachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey - please write to the Mailing List and no CC please. > > Thx Axel > > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > I apologize... I was not paying attention and didn't realize this was > > on the users list. There ha

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Axel Sachmann
Hey - please write to the Mailing List and no CC please. Thx Axel Frank W. Zammetti wrote: I apologize... I was not paying attention and didn't realize this was on the users list. There has simultaneously been a thread about this on the user list and the dev list (we were told it was appropriate

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
I noticed that the last few days there were four and five posts to this list, so the damage should be minimal. I am not going to state the obvious I noticed the following Shale thread here as well. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=111272767800458&w=2 Let's keep a clean ship, shipm

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I apologize... I was not paying attention and didn't realize this was on the users list. There has simultaneously been a thread about this on the user list and the dev list (we were told it was appropriate for the dev list by the way), and I didn't notice. My bad. Frank Craig McClanahan wrote

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/20/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll be doing sf.net... Once I have a complete codebase (not final, just > more complete than what I posted previously) I'll see about getting it > set up as a project on struts.sf.net. I think that's the right place > for it. > In th

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Vic Cekvenich (netsql) wrote: Frank W. Zammetti wrote:I do think there is more that can be done, and I still think the tags are the best way to present it. Maybe tags that leverage dojo.js? Today I did some refactoring of the whole thing, and the important point of it all is that a developer wil

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote:I do think there is more that can be done, and I still think the tags are the best way to present it. Maybe tags that leverage dojo.js? Hey, if you'd like to be involved with my efforts, I could certainly use the help in ... Do you sf.net or wiki type resources? .V --

Re: [_Severely_ OT; linguistics, end of thread (for me)] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
The fact that words have multiple meanings/uses does not mean the meanings are private. If the meanings are private, they have absolutely no use whatsoever. That is a DOH! On 4/20/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's swell, from an academic point of view, but the fact is that >

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
ested). This way you could even do one version that uses Dojo if you want! Frank I was interested in the conversation, hope this adds some value. Regards...djsuarez -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:49 PM To: Struts Users Mail

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread David Suarez
ould be on the page: http://xxx.yyy.zzz?a=b&c=d";)"/> Same caveats as below apply...djsuarez -Original Message- From: David Suarez Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:26 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Saw th

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread David Suarez
e. I was interested in the conversation, hope this adds some value. Regards...djsuarez -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:49 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Martin Cooper wrote: > My "

[_Severely_ OT; linguistics, end of thread (for me)] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: According to the linguists, the "beauty" of language is just the opposite, viz. its public nature, so that private meanings are not only allowed, they categorically make no sense. That's swell, from an academic point of view, but the fact is that people mean different things wit

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
Good idea. There is an incipient similar thing going on with the image package in the commons sandbox. Abey Mullasery's work there is interesting. I think it needs a bit more practical grounding, but that will come. These two projects do not overlap, but the point does. On 4/20/05, Frank W. Za

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: someone mentioned the idea of having custom tags that generate the underlying code... this is an intersting idea to me because you get the whole Swing-ish code-centric approach underlying it all, but with custom tags so you don't have to do all the code if you don't want t

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You know, if what you want is Swing on the client, i.e., you write code to do everything, then my VisML project that I mentioned yesterday is one such option. But you start to see in a pretty big hurry that it isn't a good idea... One of the most powerful aspects of web development is the way you

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Dakota Jack
There are lots of issues besides just wanting this to happen. All serious attempts so far have pretty much failed. Have you looked at Flash, if this is your big interest? Flash ActionScript pretty much does what you want. But, I don't think it is a good idea. I think you have to keep some thing

Re: [OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Erik Weber wrote: SwingWorker worker = new CustomSwingWorker("GET_XML_RPC_DATA") { I guess I'm in the wrong forum. :) Erik Ahh it's the right forum ;-). My code is VERY similar to above. .V - To unsubscribe, e-ma

[OT] Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Weber
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:47 am, Erik Weber said: I, with respect for the author, disagree with this entirely. I am people, and this is not what I expect or desire at all. As a user, I expect and desire 1) A fast download 2) my bookmarks to work/easy to remember URLs 3)

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Shey Rab Pawo
The problem with NET and JSF is not what they "do" client side but what they do server side. They are just too heavy and will never scale. This does not mean that they will not have a market. Hopefully they will so that those who love them will have money and leave us alone. But, for people who

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
According to the linguists, the "beauty" of language is just the opposite, viz. its public nature, so that private meanings are not only allowed, they categorically make no sense. This has been the rock-hard basis for modern linguistic analysis for as long as the Sun has risen. Technical terms ca

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
+1 also to Frank's suggestions, although I realize he was not ready to cash in the ticket yet. On the whole, I like his no nonsense and non-convoluted approach to these problems. That is what I liked about Struts from the beginning. The present course is not clear. Nor is there any perceived ne

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: My "Huh?" comment was in reference you your statement that the approach I was describing "doesn't really help people with existing apps", which I take issue with. If you put the JavaScript methods in separate file, it has the exact same impact on the JSP pages as your approach

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: That's why I said "or maybe somewhere else". It would be perfectly fine to put the JavaScript functions in a separate .js file and ed to from the page. And neither of us are talking scriptlets here. ;-) Glad neither of us are talking scriplets :) Didn't think we were anyway,

Re: [OT] RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
nt: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Shihgian Lee Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! I don't think saying it is wrong is accurate... It is just an environment you are probably not used to. Some argue it is better that way and many say that's the way we s

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You say it jokingly, but... Vic Cekvenich (netsql) wrote: Martin Cooper wrote: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message Again, by all means, use Dojo. Not everyone will agree it's a good answer though. Not everyone will see it as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Poor foo

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Martin Cooper wrote: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message Again, by all means, use Dojo. Not everyone will agree it's a good answer though. Not everyone will see it as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Poor fools. ;-) ;-) ;-) -- Martin Cooper Headline for tmrw bloogers

[OT] RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Fogleson, Allen
ril 19, 2005 8:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Shihgian Lee Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! I don't think saying it is wrong is accurate... It is just an environment you are probably not used to. Some argue it is better that way and many say that's the way we should be moving

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Michael J. wrote: Glorified graphics artists do not do markup, they create nice mockups in Photoshop, which adore big bosses, who tell those unglofied ones to implement unearthy coolness in code. And those implementing this fancy stuff better know [at least about existence of] Javascript, XHTML, CS

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
On 4/19/05, Shihgian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What you demonstrate here I would also argue is worse for page authors, > > who now have to be concerned with script writing as well as layout of > > simple HTML tags. You can argue that a page author would know > > Javascript as well, and yo

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Shihgian Lee
> What you demonstrate here I would also argue is worse for page authors, > who now have to be concerned with script writing as well as layout of > simple HTML tags. You can argue that a page author would know > Javascript as well, and you may be right in most cases, but the idea > that everyone s

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
"Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Martin Cooper wrote: > >>>* Provide a client side JavaScript library that does the grunt work > >>> of making the back-end XmlHttpRequest call, and updating the > >>> corresponding portion of your DOM. Martin like

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
"Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Martin Cooper wrote: > > Perhaps I'm missing the simplicity of your proposal. Let's take the example > > from your original RFC. Here it is, for convenience: > > > > > > > Now let's look at the equivalent if I use t

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: * Provide a client side JavaScript library that does the grunt work of making the back-end XmlHttpRequest call, and updating the corresponding portion of your DOM. Martin likes DOJO for this; there are also a bunch of other libraries that do the same sort of thing that sho

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Martin Cooper wrote: Perhaps I'm missing the simplicity of your proposal. Let's take the example from your original RFC. Here it is, for convenience: Now let's look at the equivalent if I use the existing Struts HTML tags and Dojo. In the JSP page: Elsewhere in the JSP page, or maybe somewhere

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
"Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:47 am, Craig McClanahan said: > > This is exactly the area I've been having trouble with this proposal > > as well ... tell me again why you can't use Ajax techniques with the > > standard

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Cooper
Perhaps I'm missing the simplicity of your proposal. Let's take the example from your original RFC. Here it is, for convenience: In the JSP page: In the Ajax config file: button1 onClick queryString buttonValue=button1,textValue=text1 http://www.om

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: The problem arose, initially, because we were allowing for something like 300 records max at a time. Such a request was taking like 5 seconds on a P3 550. As it turns out, the response from the server was sub-second (VERY low, better than anything we see even today in cur

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:33 pm, Vic Cekvenich (netsql) said: > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >> Not if I complete my project! ;) >> > > > I hope you do! > See if you can put some version on struts.sf.net, this is how some > committers got in. That's my plan at the moment. There frankly isn't a ton lef

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Not if I complete my project! ;) I hope you do! See if you can put some version on struts.sf.net, this is how some committers got in. I am no JavaScript guru, but something similar to XUL and new W3 XForms, were it's even possible to just send XML-RPC style XML to the s

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Not if I complete my project! ;) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Tue, April 19, 2005 1:37 pm, Dave Newton said: > Dakota Jack wrote: > >>This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? >> >> > ...which is straying a bi

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: I may be nuts, many have said I am on this list, unfairly, but isn't "rendering HTML" capable of being understood either as "rendering the HTML" meaning creating the HTML or "rendering the HTML" meaning creating the view from the HTML? At least people like David Geary talk about

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I think this AJAX discussion was about integrating AJAX and Struts. Not complaining about your asides, Dave. Just trying to maintain some focus. ///;-) On 4/19/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dakota Jack wrote: > > >This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? > > > > > ..

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? ...which is straying a bit from Struts? Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I may be nuts, many have said I am on this list, unfairly, but isn't "rendering HTML" capable of being understood either as "rendering the HTML" meaning creating the HTML or "rendering the HTML" meaning creating the view from the HTML? At least people like David Geary talk about serverside renderi

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That's actually a good point... We've all heard about JSF and ASP.Net, how they handle client-side events server-side, which is a concept I've never been especially enamored with. But, when you see some actual examples of this in things like what Google is doing, you start to reconsider that posit

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Well, to the extent that AJAX techniques can make a site seem faster, it is actually on-topic. And I don't care if this map thing is on-topic or not, it is cool as hell :) By the way, not sure who said it, but you can in fact scroll around this map, just like Google Maps, by dragging. The zoom i

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You got me :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Tue, April 19, 2005 1:26 pm, Dave Newton said: > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > >>Simply put, there isn't the usual HTML rendering happening on the server >> because the >>HTML esse

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
This may be straying a bit from the AJAX discussion? On 4/19/05, Michael J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/19/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like fast download times, but I hate the web: I want any page that's > > more complicated than "Here, download this, you'll be be

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Simply put, there isn't the usual HTML rendering happening on the server because the HTML essentially already exists. Just a nitpick; there's never any HTML rendering on the server. Generation, perhaps, but not rendering. Dave

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: I'm interested in knowing if that's what you are actually saying because, while I have moved away from it a bit as I've said, I still believe that approach has significant advantages, but for a long time I thought I was the only one that thought so! :) I'm not Vic, but I

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I have another perspective on this. Rich UIs are good, but what I like about AJAX in addition to that somewhat peripheral concern (to me) is that it cooperates with the serverside and allows the serverside to be more efficient. The relationship between the server and the client in AJAX is what is

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Michael J. wrote: Have you tried this one: http://map.search.ch/ Try to magnify ;) Oh, that's neat. If you could drag it it'd be like a real application! Cool! Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You would, I think, love some of the apps I've put together. The problem though, as far as other developers go, is that they really are a whole different paradigm than what most are used to. Ironically, the very first web app I did for my current employer some five years ago is the best example o

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
On 4/19/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like fast download times, but I hate the web: I want any page that's > more complicated than "Here, download this, you'll be better off" to > have functionality that doesn't make me wait all the time. For a server > round-trip. Sometimes it'

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: I don't think he said "absolutely everyone, including specifically Erik Weber", Erik. You turn out, in the end, to be just a person: not people. ///;-) Not me, though; I'm actually people. I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other. I like fast download times, b

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That's an interesting comment Vic... are you saying you favor an approach where the entire client view itself is rendered on the client? I ask because that used to be my thinking, and I'm moved away from it to some degree. By way of example: * The little proof of concept thing I mentioned ealier

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
HUZZAH! +1 This is about AJAX, not about JavaScript. I am with those who say that if you don't like abortion, don't have one. Also, if you don't like JavaScript, don't use it. But, in the middle of an AJAX discussion all this pro and con JavaScript discussion is ridiculous. Jack On 4/19/05, J

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cekvenich (netsql)
Michael J. wrote: People just should stop thinking in terms of "client-side scripting" and start thinking in terms of "client-side rendering" :-) (XAML, XUL, Flex, JDNC, DHTML(Ajax, JavaScript)). UI naturaly should be done on "client" side, asking for domain and other services from the

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
I don't think he said "absolutely everyone, including specifically Erik Weber", Erik. You turn out, in the end, to be just a person: not people. ///;-) Jack On 4/19/05, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > >On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Dakota Jack
+1 Frank! Good old agility and Xtreme principles say do it and worry about all this "wah wah wah wah" later. You have a simple and very useful idea which is at the beginning stages but which is well-thought out and which is based on a solid engineering foundation. Go for it as you initially conc

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Jason King
We need to agree to disagree on the virtue/detriment of javascript in web pages. Different applications for different audiences with different purposes have different solutions. At my company we've implemented intranet apps where the users do a significant amount of heads-down data entry. They

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
> Sometimes it takes more developer effort/technology to create something > that's easier to use. Sometimes it doesn't. But to say that > client-side scripting is completely unnecessary for "well designed" > application UIs is incorrect, IMO. It depends on what your users need > to do. People j

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Scott Piker
CTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: > > >>I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... >&g

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Marsh-Bourdon, Christopher
Hear-hear. My users would brain me if I just provided that amount of interface on a web application. -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 April 2005 16:17 To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:47 am, Erik Weber said: > I, with respect for the author, disagree with this entirely. > > I am people, and this is not what I expect or desire at all. As a user, > I expect and desire 1) A fast download 2) my bookmarks to work/easy to > remember URLs 3) an organized and w

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:46 am, Michael J. said: > Struts-only or JSP-only solution is not good enough. The more portable > is the better, so when I read Frank's proposal I thought, why those > input controls are generated with custom tags? What if controls were > created with Javascript? Custom t

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Erik Weber
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today. People expect, generally,

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:37 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: > Maybe I'm to old (in respect to IT-technology), but for me most of those > highly sophisticated apps (be them client or web) are not very usable... > I prefer a simple processing scheme. No doubt there were (are still are) some ver

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Michael J.
Since this group is more crowded, I took the liberty to crosspost a portion of my message, that I mistakingly sent to dev group. Struts-only or JSP-only solution is not good enough. The more portable is the better, so when I read Frank's proposal I thought, why those input controls are generated w

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21)
-Original Message- > I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today. People expect, generally, more robust UIs delivered in a browser. They expect webapps that l

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said: > I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all... Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today. People expect, generally, more robust UIs delivered in a

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 12:53 am, Martin Cooper said: > To get beyond doing the grunt work yourself for Ajax, I recommend taking a > look at this: > > http://dojotoolkit.org/intro_to_dojo_io.html > > and downloading the dojo.io package from their site. It does look cool. However, in some ways what

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, April 19, 2005 2:47 am, Craig McClanahan said: > This is exactly the area I've been having trouble with this proposal > as well ... tell me again why you can't use Ajax techniques with the > standard Struts HTML tags? No one, at least not me, has made that statement at any point. I frank

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread William Connor
Based on my experience porting the Struts tags to AJAX/SWF (swf.dev.java.net), I would agree with Craig that the existing Struts tags would be sufficient; however, tweaking the event handler attrs, as in SWF, does provide some simplification. For example (in SWF), w/ o the tweak we would nee

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Stéphane Zuckerman
Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) a écrit : Well,... If we look behind the problems that could arise with JavaScript... I am really convinced that JS in a webapp is a really BAD idea. Think about Cross-Scripting. It is not that your web-applicaiton is the culprit, but someoneelse's bad-behaving Javascript

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Mon, April 18, 2005 11:12 am, Emmanouil Batsis said: I haven't really studied the samples yet, but it would seem more semantically correct to me if the html:form was used to make this work. I'll try to come up with more concrete suggestions. I thought of that too

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21)
-Original Message- Users that turn off JS are akin, in my mind, to automobile drivers who decide they would rather play Fred Flintstone, cut holes in the floorboards and not bother starting the engine. Oh, you'll get around, but your missing out! While I am certainly not trying to say the

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 4/18/05, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To get beyond doing the grunt work yourself for Ajax, I recommend taking a > look at this: > > http://dojotoolkit.org/intro_to_dojo_io.html > > and downloading the dojo.io package from their site. > > Personally, I'm not convinced that we n

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Martin Cooper
To get beyond doing the grunt work yourself for Ajax, I recommend taking a look at this: http://dojotoolkit.org/intro_to_dojo_io.html and downloading the dojo.io package from their site. Personally, I'm not convinced that we need anything new in Struts to make using Ajax easier. I'm building pro

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I should probably post this on the Wiki, but... AJAX is just a new buzzword for an old concept: updating only portions of a web page instead of everything at once. Speaking for myself, I was doing what would now be called AJAX at least five years ago, and I'm talking about in a production app. I

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Ah, I see. In any case this doesn't require new tags. Part of this is I'm not just talking about validation. In fact I think that's about the most pedestrian use of AJAX around! It's the cooler kind of things you can get away with like table sorting, like the example in my article. Not that th

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Oh, *that* part of it I agree has to be there or we're talking about something completely different. It was the usage of XML that isn't required, that was my point in writing that. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Mon, Apri

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
I think you might be misunderstanding this point. And, I would invite Frank, when he gets time to explain it to you. Jack On 4/18/05, Michael J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From wiki: > > No one should be under the impression that you have to deal in XML > > or that you have to use the XMLHttpR

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Jason King
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: You lost me Jason... what extra tags are you referring to? My proposal specifically didn't require any new tags, only additions to the existing ones. You previously said: why not just modify the existing Struts tags to have some at least minimal AJAX functionality? But

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Michael J.
>From wiki: > No one should be under the impression that you have to deal in XML > or that you have to use the XMLHttpRequest object at all, contrary > to the meaning of the AJAX moniker. Not that I really care about the name, but for me you do not use Ajax if you do not use async HTTP calls, eith

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
There is no problem using the name. That is the name the people at Adaptive Path want used. It is not the name for a product. It is the name for a technology and there is no problem with being sued. You can just AJAX all you want. The name is clean, but not cleanser. ///;-) Jack On 4/18/05,

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
Thanks tor this note. Attribution supplied. You might have done that yourself. On 4/18/05, Michael J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is all great, and ajax definetely rules, but is it OK to use > other's pictures without giving credit to their author, who by the > way, came up with this name:

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
You lost me Jason... what extra tags are you referring to? My proposal specifically didn't require any new tags, only additions to the existing ones. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Mon, April 18, 2005 2:43 pm, Jason King

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
> From: Günther Wieser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:55 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; 'Dakota Jack' > Subject: RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! > > hi, > > after all the mail about the philosophical aspects of AJAX (javascript

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Forget whatever I was thinking, I think Jason is on the right track! Ironically, I add custom attributes all the time in numerous situations, but it frankly escaped me as a possible solution here. All you really need beyond this is probably a new tag that renders a JS function that you can pass a

RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Günther Wieser
nther -Original Message- From: Günther Wieser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:55 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; 'Dakota Jack' Subject: RE: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie! hi, after all the mail about the philosophical aspects of AJAX (javascrip

Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-18 Thread Dakota Jack
Yes. I agree with this wholeheartedly. I wish we would do something similar with the application specific code that is now in Struts. Plugins would not be the solution, but something akin to that. On 4/18/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No problemo. As far as the extension itsel

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