Nov 09
Sometimes it can be a little painful, or I should say, restricting working with browsers as a client UI.
Features like XML HTTP Request definitely help out. It is great to be able to shoot off a message on the background and not have to rerender pages all of the time.
Before XMLHttpRequest, we had to do various hacks. Maybe involving opening tiny windows, using Applets, or whatever sneaky tool we can think off.
If you have an app that needs to poke back to the server check it out.
Reading code such as:
xmlhttp.open(”GET”, “test.txt”, true);
again makes me love Named Parameters:
xmlhttp.open(httpmethod:”GET”, url:”test.txt”, asyncFlag: true);
It would help my readability at least.
