[drraw-users] More Colors? Auto detect DSs?

[Patrick Collins]

CGI::Ajax is pretty handy at exposing a perl function call as an Ajax
call. It can also look nice in conjunction with Scrip.taculo.us, but all
that javascript can make it reaaaaally slow to load.

Patrick.

-----Original Message-----
From: drraw-users-bounces at taranis.org
[mailto:drraw-users-bounces at taranis.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Wollman
Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2007 4:31 AM
To: Christophe Kalt
Cc: drraw-users at taranis.org
Subject: Re: [drraw-users] More Colors? Auto detect DSs?

<<On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:19:30 -0500, Christophe Kalt <kalt at taranis.org>
said:

> On Mar 07, Joel Krauska wrote:
> | There are lots of sexy things you could do with drraw if you wanted
to 
> | spend a few weeks using AJAX. (populate DS lists, immediately show
graph 
> | updates, etc..)

> I'm open to the idea, do *you* have time? ;-)

> | At the expense of sanity and perhaps server load.

> Well, i can't help with your sanity, but hopefully we can
> minimize the impact on the server.

Anyone thinking of doing this and wishing to maintain some degree of
sanity should probably start out with the Prototype
(<http://www.prototypejs.org/>) and Scriptaculous
(<http://script.aculo.us/>) libraries rather than trying to roll one's
own.  Your brain will hurt enough as it is, there's no need to add the
even greater burden of writing all that glue yourself (and making it
work on four different browser platforms).

Then doing an AJAX call becomes as simple as:

myRequest = new Ajax.Updater('id-of-element-to-update', '/url/here');

-GAWollman

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