Re: Ajax via RSP/CGIDEV2

As for the age of the technology, Outlook Web Access was one of the early

adopters of the XMLHTTPRequest object, back in the late 90's. And there are
_lots_ of installs of that application.

Interesting you bring that one up as it does not work fully with FireFox and
we are in 2006.  I have to switch over to IE to read my email with OWA (at
least if I want the nice remoting a DHTML features).  Maybe Microsoft did
that on purpose who knows.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:38 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ajax via RSP/CGIDEV2

Aaron,

Not trying to argue -- honest. I agree that blindly accepting an open source
offering would be silly, and the first thing we did when we started using
prototype was to rip it apart and see what makes it work.
Sure we'd hacked together some XMLHTTPRequest stuff, but looking at what was
done in prototype gave us a greater understanding of it, and a better grasp
on why we didn't want to implement it ourselves. As well as adding a number
of non-ajax related tricks to our toolkit.

As for the age of the technology, Outlook Web Access was one of the early
adopters of the XMLHTTPRequest object, back in the late 90's. And there are
_lots_ of installs of that application. You are absolutely correct that it's
now getting the attention it's getting because non-ie browsers now support
it rather well. But it's not like it was shelf-ware until a year ago.

-Walden

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(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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