Re: Tabs in HTML Pages

I've used different tabs implementations, not 100% happy with none, in
complex apps with a lot of fields the html+js ends to be really complex.

I think the best (but difficult to achieve) is having each tab in an
different html, but not as responsive as all in the same html with a lot of
js.
In this moment all tabs we made are made using an only html for all tabs,
each tab is a div that hides/shows in js and so on, the real content for
each tab is retrieved using ajax.
Despite if the html+js is complex, the RPG will be easy because you can
separate the RPG logic for each tab 'cause each tab is completed with data
coming in ajax from an different RPG program.

nobody wants easy programs, that


Saludos,
Guillermo Andrades
http://cpiSoftware.es


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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I seem to recall that my first experience with Tabs in HTML pages was about
5 years ago when my neighbor gave a demonstration of a rich UI toolkit that
his company was developing. During the demo of tabbed pages a business
partner turned to me and asked, "can your toolkit do that". "Uhhhh, no", I
replied. I was unprepared for that. My neighbor later sold his company to
SCO, which is better known for their lawsuits against Microsoft, IBM, and
Linux, than developing software, and the rich UI toolkit was shelved.

Since then I've used a couple different techniques to implement tabs in
HTML pages, neither of which I'm totally pleased with. I shouldn't feel too
bad, though. I can just point to the tabs in the IBM i HTTP Server *ADMIN
interface and note that even IBM didn't get it right.

Yesterday I watched the training video at www.asp.net on Microsoft's tab
implementation in their AJAX toolkit. I skimmed over a rather lengthy blog
on the subject, and the general consensus was that it was a good thing that
Microsoft's implementation was open-source, because as it stood, there were
a lot of requirements it didn't meet.

Early this morning, while in bed and partly awake but partly asleep, I
began making a mental note of a number of requirements for "tab"
implementations. I think I came up with a fairly lengthly list. I
hope I can remember it.

With that background, do members of this list have tab implementations that
they're happy with?

Thanks,

Nathan.



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