REST assured
Joel, you can do a kind of REST through Javascript by using these methods. I have had good results with it on IE 5, 6 and Firefox:
http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020606.htm
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/importxml.html
Matthew Lock
Thursday, June 17, 2004
For an example, point Moaillz/Firefox at
http://www.infodraft.com/~faser/mab/
and click "Open in Window" on the left.
This is what can be done today wirh REST.
And it's a good XUL demo too.
fool for python
Thursday, June 17, 2004
This is realy the way to go.
I wrote a web application using this method, allthough I only supported IE. Most of my users were using slow internet connections, so I had to do something drastic to address the perfomance problems.
One thing that I have allways wanted to do, but have not found a way, is to controll the progress bar on the status bar, and the "spining earth"/"ring of dots"/"thingembob going around the N"
Good artical on method: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/inner-browsing/
Gary van der Merwe
Friday, June 18, 2004
Another quick-and-dirty hack method which works with older browsers is to create a new Image object whose URL is a script that returns an empty 1 pixel image or something. But can take parameters.
dummy = new Image('/script/foo?params=bar');
Only works in one direction though obviously.
Matt
Friday, June 18, 2004
You can use a tiny iframe to do the above and receive data too, but again it's a bit of a hack compared to XmlHttpRequest: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/importingXML.html
Matthew Lock
Friday, June 18, 2004
Cool thing about the above hack is that if the user is offline, they get a msg box asking if they want to go back online. When using XmlHttpRequest, an excption is thrown :-<
Gary van der Merwe
Monday, June 21, 2004
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