AJAX ahoy

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Jun 30 2006, 4:08 pm
It is time...those of us buried in the depths of the BYOND labs pride ourselves for never being too much more than half a decade behind the times. Right about the time our grandparents are saying, "Eh, sonny, how pathetic is it that your little game site doesn't use CSS?", bam, we adopt CSS. Screw you, granny!

And so it's time for AJAX. In the web pages I design, since I dislike the "submit button" model, I have an annoying habit of making it so every little action reloads the page. For proof of this, just look at the new guild management page.

So AJAX and me should get along...now every little action can take effect immediately, but you won't be forced to endure a page load in the process.

Here I sit with Ajax In Action freshly bought, a long weekend ahead of me, and the BYOND website to play with. Strap in, boys, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
Jun 30 2006, 4:12 pm
Good for you! Using the guild interface today, I was thinking how well AJAX would fit. Best of luck!
Jun 30 2006, 4:14 pm
Yay! Ajax!

Too bad BYOND itself doesn't have an AJAX library for DMCGI.

ASP.Net 2's AJAX implementation, Atlas, is really nice. After designing the page in the regular postback everything way, you just need to throw Atlas UpdatePanel tags around anything you want AJAX-Enabled. No extra code required! :)
Jun 30 2006, 4:16 pm
Sweet!
Jun 30 2006, 4:18 pm
:)

Jun 30 2006, 4:20 pm
Does this herald the return of test.byond.com/members? :)
Jun 30 2006, 4:36 pm
Google has an AJAX library, or whatever you call it. It is what they use for all their stuff, which is a lot. It can be found somewhere around http://code.google.com
Jul 2 2006, 9:58 pm
AJAX (or atleast the concept of AJAX) has been around for a while now, but with some savvy marketing all us old PHP programmers are in high demand again in Europe!

AJAX is heavily used by the company I work for currently. We are building an online version of a graveyard/dead-person-tracking application (originally written in Delphi and being ported to PHP/MySQL/AJAX) meant to be rolled out Germany-wide by the end of the year. AJAX makes it nice to send little changes directly back to the server without having the need to reload the browser page every time.

Enjoy Deadron! it's great stuff.

oh and for those interested, here are the libraries we use: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/#intro - moo, http://prototype.conio.net/ - Prototype, and http://openrico.org/ - Rico. all are used with PHP and MySQL.