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  3. March 2012

Re: the RPG problem - adrift in the PC-web wind

On 3/13/2012 9:36 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
I have mixed feelings about that. I generally prefer interfaces which are initially built from HTML tags over those that are generated purely by JavaScript renditions. I dislike the appearance of a parasol or sun dial or hour glass as the browser is working on rendering components built from script. JavaScript can be very powerful, but a little goes a long way in my book.

Your book is a little different than mine.

JavaScript can render instantaneously or as close to instantaneously as to not matter; it really doesn't take much to stuff a new tag into a DOM with today's modern browsers. My product design application which uses about 300 widgets made up of some 1000 HTML elements in a 12-pane UI (all of which are collapsable) takes about two seconds to load from XML on the host.

The collapsable panes are just one thing I get automatically from my Dojo toolbox that are pretty difficult to duplicate with standard HTML.

Joe

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