[development] Ajax suggestions for an SoC student

[Stefan Nagtegaal]

Op 18-apr-2006, om 21:33 heeft Steve Dondley het volgende geschreven:

> I know a University of Massachusetts student who is very interested in
> putting his interest in Ajax to work for the Drupal SoC program.  His
> basic project idea is to use Ajax to lower bandwidth and minimize whoe
> page generations.
>
> For example, the vote.moduel displays a poll in a block and the user
> makes a selection and clicks on "Vote."  It's overkill to make a visit
> to index.php to regenrate an entire page simply to display the poll
> results when they could get redisplayed in the block with Ajax.  There
> are probably dozens of other examples like this.
>
> So this is not "ajax for ajax sake."  It will help reduce server load.
>
> I'd like to help find a mentor for the student, someone who knows more
> about Ajax than I do and who can help him think up concrete ideas for
> using Ajax with Drupal to minimize server load to put into a proposal.
>  Please email me and I'll put you in touch with him.
>
> Thanks!
Maybe Thox, Steven or Nedjo??



Steef