[FX.php List] Ajax/LAJAX's JavaScript requirements

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi Bob

I know you didn't ask me, but I started with Lance Hallberg's LAJAX, at
http://www.fm-synergy.com/samples/AJAX/Lajax/

He's got a demo at the bottom, and a link to download his scripts.

(The demo was a *little* confusing to me at first just because it  
displays both the Get Array and the Post Array even though you submit  
just one at a time, but looking at the source code for a little bit  
and playing with the JavaScript call, I was fairly quickly able to  
get it to work on my FMP DB, by finding a record through a field on a  
web page, and then viewing the found record's related child records  
by a link on the returned parent record -- both without reloading the  
main page.  Very cool, and more than enough to get me started. :)

-Joel


On Oct 20, 2006, at 7:06 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Here's where I started...
>
> http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html
>
> There is a pretty good description of the basic technique and some  
> bare-bones sample code.
>
> Dale
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
>> Hey Dale,
>>
>> Where would you suggest I start in learning AJAX? I'd like to get  
>> started with it myself...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
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>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>
>>> I am using AJAX extensively in production; it is a major  
>>> component of my development at this time. AJAX is a great tool.  
>>> There are some things I will never go back to doing with form  
>>> submits. And it's wicked fast - even with FM6.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I've just been playing w/ LAJAX and it's very cool, but I'm  
>>>> wondering how practical it is to use in a real site because of  
>>>> its JavaScript requirements (this would be for anything using  
>>>> Ajax).  I doubt many people these days disable JavaScript on  
>>>> their browser, but because it's a possibility, it seems you'd  
>>>> need to test for it first and then provide other options for  
>>>> when JS is disabled (or provide instructions for the user to  
>>>> enable it).  Also, I notice that LAJAX requires JavaScript 1.2,  
>>>> but that seems likely a non-issue since that came out in 1997  
>>>> (or is it?).
>>>>
>>>> How are people dealing with this?  Anyone using it in production?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Joel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Joel Shapiro - FileMaker Pro Database Design
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>>>>
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