[drupal-devel] AJAX in CMS
Worth a look: http://www.cmswatch.com/images/AjaxFinal.html. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
Hmm, this is interesting but somewhat telling that most of the solutions are IE-only. It's sort of a shame too that most of the solutions were focused on corporate tasks instead of community tools.... but hopefully that will change soon. I've got the early part of an AJAX-style vocabulary system in the works (the same one I've been talking about for awhile now) and will need some help making it sing, but I think it will be a very slick addition to Drupal 4.7. Chris On 4/10/05, Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> wrote:
Worth a look: http://www.cmswatch.com/images/AjaxFinal.html.
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
Dries Buytaert wrote:
Worth a look: http://www.cmswatch.com/images/AjaxFinal.html I can't resist replying to that with a suggestion that everyone read Ian Hixie's blog post about AJAX: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1111339822&count=1
Quote: "So I have a request: could people please stop making up new names for existing technologies? Just call things by their real name!" In essence the article Dries linked too is talking about XMLHttpRequest combined with JavaScript. For me Ajax is and will always be a brand of kitchen cleaner! <http://www.colgate.com/app/Colgate/US/HouseholdCare/ProductRecommender/HouseholdCleaners/PDPs.cvsp?product=AjaxwithBleachCleanser_225> -- adrinux (aka Adrian Simmons) <http://adrinux.perlucida.com> e-mail <mailto:adrinux@gmail.com> AOL/Yahoo IM: perlucida, Microsoft: adrian@perlucida.com
Worth a look: http://www.cmswatch.com/images/AjaxFinal.html
I can't resist replying to that with a suggestion that everyone read Ian Hixie's blog post about AJAX: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1111339822&count=1
Quote: "So I have a request: could people please stop making up new names for existing technologies? Just call things by their real name!"
In essence the article Dries linked too is talking about XMLHttpRequest combined with JavaScript. For me Ajax is and will always be a brand of kitchen cleaner! <http://www.colgate.com/app/Colgate/US/HouseholdCare/ProductRecommender/HouseholdCleaners/PDPs.cvsp?product=AjaxwithBleachCleanser_225>
Well, for quite a few others, CMS means a lot more stuff, then content management systems :) Despite this fact, we do associate the context specific meaning. http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?acronym=cms The "XML and script" that Hixie suggests instead of Ajax could equally be already built into Drupal. We do use the PHP scripting language, and handle quite a lot of XML stuff from generation to parsing. Isn't Drupal already "XML and script" capable? It is. In fact PHP itself is. Does Drupal or PHP "support" Ajax? Nope. It is a different context. Hixie is too far off. Ajax might not be the best name, but "XML and script" will definitely not work. Goba
On 4/10/05, Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote:
The "XML and script" that Hixie suggests instead of Ajax could equally be already built into Drupal. We do use the PHP scripting language, and handle quite a lot of XML stuff from generation to parsing. Isn't Drupal already "XML and script" capable? It is. In fact PHP itself is.
I'm wondering what developers think about combining AJAX (i.e. XMLHttpRequest) w/ OPML for category/taxonomy administration? Again, I'm working this into a UI demo, but I don't have the programming clout to do the XMLHttpRequest stuff. In particular, adding AJAX to this XSLT & OPML (http://www.netcrucible.com/xslt/opml.htm) looks promising. Chris
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