2005-07-21 Web

On StefanBucher’s blog, I found the following link:

=> StefanBucher

=> Blog Survey

=> Blog Survey

The survey was boring and often asked questions I did not know how to answer. I don’t use IM much anymore, for example. I use InternetRelayChat. How many people are on my buddy list. How many weblogs do I write on? Just one, this one. But I write on several wikis. Are they weblogs?

When I entered my email address and hit submit, it instantaneously said that an email had been sent. More AJAX! (See AJAX.) I looked at the source and sure enough, the confirmation message was not part of it. But it linked to an external javascript resource. It does all the POSTing and parsing.

=> AJAX | external javascript

The messy incompatibility disaster is far from over, however:

function get_ajax() {
	var A;
	try {
		A=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
	} catch (e) {
		try {
			A=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (oc) {
			A=null;
		}
	}
	if(!A && typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
		A = new XMLHttpRequest();
		try { A.overrideMimeType('text/xml'); } catch(e2) { /* for opera */ }
	}
	return A;
}

This is the kind of stuff that scares me away from javascript.

Maybe I should investigate the script.aculo.us package. It seems to be part of Ruby On Rails. If I had one big humongous library to abstract all the browser mess away...

=> script.aculo.us

The AJAX article also pointed me at Sarissa...

=> AJAX | Sarissa

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