Re: How do we get there from here?


michael@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> You've all heard the one about the farm worker who was once asked for
> directions... he replied, "Well if I was you, I would'nt start from
> here".
>
> If you weren't by now committed to a particular path for web
> development and deployment and could start with a clean slate... and
> wanted to cater for *any* web-server and *any* browser... would you go
> for xForms? or RAILS? or AJAX? or... what?
>
> Mike.

You hit me where I'm living right now. I did considerable research of
the reading variety and less of the hands-on variety, looking at xforms
and ruby on rails (you can do php "on rails" ish now too) as well as
Java with struts and Java Server Faces and plenty of others. I have not
settled on the server side as yet (coming down to PHP & Java, I've
eliminated Ruby and Python for now), but on the front end, I'm jumping
into AJAX (and Web 2.0) and not looking back. I did a talk on AJAX at
a conference a couple of weeks ago and had a bunch of people tell me
that it was a great talk and that I must be very smart. So, even if
the technology doesn't work for me, people will think I'm smart ;-)

As for AJAX - I have done written/cloned code to create the
XMLHTTPRequest object and it is clear to me that I want to use a
pre-packaged framework for that. I researched current options and
selected prototype.js (the same one that the Ruby on Rails folks built
into that) and might use the rico.js (openrico.org) library too (which
makes use of prototype.js). There are a ton of other options these
days, but prototype.js seems solid. I'm scheduled to attempt to use it
for the first time tomorrow by 5:00. Once I have an example, I'll post
it to my web site.

--dawn

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