ajax

[bertine]

lexi, this ajax stuff is so damn cool. i made up a demo of it this morning and now i am jealous that you get to work with it all the time.


for those of you not in the "know" ajax is the blending of technologies that makes gmail as fast and slick as it.

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[lexir0x.livejournal.com]

actually, it can't. it's totally non-obtrusive. usually if you want to save any data with javascript, you have to use the microsoft version called "jscript", or post it to a form, which then isn't really javascript at all. javascript can write to browser windows, which can then be saved as html by a person. but it can't do it on its own. you can use other languages in conjunction with js though, that will write out... or use activex, but that only works in IE, which sucks.

but i am totally going to set up my site to be totally ajax though. it may become my weekend obsession. whee!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I need to learn javascript better and get working on this.

i suppose ajax just doesn't have that many uses if you aren't updating data. :(

you should! the guy that is making the demo stuff here is really making a slick little app with it, i am blown away by it. I am just sad that I can't play because i am stuck making asp classes all day. :(

[lexir0x.livejournal.com]

that's ok, i'm stuck validating html to see if it isn't just a heap of semivalid html that's breaking safari.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

so does safari convert all negative numbers into scientific notation?

[lexir0x.livejournal.com]

from all of the testing i did last night, yes. it does. it actually made me a little bit physically ill.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

i think that is making me sick too.

this is why i don't like js that much, too many variables to worry about.

[lexir0x.livejournal.com]

well, a) it's job security for me, because nobody else wants to bother with it. i'm kindof like the janitor of the programming world.
and b) it wouldnt' be so bad if ms and netscape had made up back in the day and standardized. most of the time it isn't so bad. however, i have to say, safari is the most frustrating browser i've ever had to work with. worse than old netscape, worse than IE at times... it's like the temperamental, slightly retarded/stupid diva/actress/artiste. you can't tell it anything, and whenever you try to help it, it runs out of the room.

i effing hate it.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

every verison or just the older ones?

i miss my old company were we forced people to have the browser we wanted them to have.