Re: Ajax please....

Robert Cummings wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:40, Manuel Lemos wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>on 04/08/2006 10:53 AM Ryan A said the following: >> >>>Carlin Bingham / Tedd: >>>----------------------- >>>Yes, but then I would have to reload the whole page just to tell the person >>>that the account username was already taken...thats how its "traditionally" >>>done...but I want to try doing it without reloading the whole page...hence >>>Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX) although the XML part at the end is >>>not really too accurate because from what I see you can (and i have) use >>>AJAX without any XML...in my case it would be AJAH or AJAT (H=HTML, T=TEXT) >>>:-p >> >>There is a misunderstanding here. The X does not necessarily means >>generic XML. It may mean XHTML. Anyway, an AJAX request may server any >>type of data. >> >>Another point is that AJAX does not mean necessarily using >>XMLHttpRequest objects . As you may read in the Wikipedia definition, >>many AJAX frameworks use IFrame. >> >>[-- SNIP PIMPING OF IFRAMES --] > > > I'm probably just having a bowel movement or something, but I think > going with a lib that supports either iframe or xmlhttprequest > interchangeably is probably the way to go. While iframe may have more > features and less instability surrounding it right now, you can probably > bet your ass, xmlhttprequest is going to become the standard for the > simple reason that it's purpose was to do this kind of thing, whereas > iframes are a dirty little hack :) > > I would just hate to have to rewrite everything once iframes start > sucking. And no, I don't currently know of an ajax lib that does this, > but I'll certainly be making mine do so in the near future :) HTML_AJAX (http://pear.php.net/HTML_AJAX) has had iframe fallback support since I first checked it out in version 0.2.0 Greg