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  • R Raj Lal

    led mike wrote:

    some executive tells us

    I am not one of them, why you are pouring it on me :) and ajax is more of avoiding iframe then using it --- My first article^

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    led mike
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    Sorry that was not meant to be pointed at you.

    Quartz... wrote:

    ajax is more of avoiding iframe then using it

    Not sure I agree with that. Sure the XmlHttpRequest object is prefered but the main point of Ajax is the asynchronous communications. Using an IFrame is referenced as a method of Ajax communications in many places including Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX[^]


    "What classes are you using ? You shouldn't call stuff if you have no idea what it does" Christian Graus in the C# forum led mike

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    • S Stuart Dootson

      Shog9 wrote:

      C++-style "everything is an object"

      ????? C++ is always derided by OO purists because it doesn't have "everything is an object"....now if you were talking C# or Java, no argument, but C++ - nah. C++ is my (Win32 client) development language of choice because it allows me to use so many different paradigms.

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      Shog9 0
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      Eh, yeah... I worded that badly. :-O C has data structures. Straight-forward, easy to understand. Write a few routines that work on a given datastructure, you've got some basic OO. Play around with function pointers, you can start having fun. C++ makes all this a bit less messy - so suddenly there's this idea that every datastructure is an object, and needs to be treated accordingly. No big deal - so long as you avoid virtual functions, it really doesn't cost you anything. But it doesn't necessarily buy you anything either - sometimes, a datastructure is just a datastructure. It's a matter of taste. Trying this in JS though... well, it's stupid and costly. Since there's no strong typing, you're better off defining datastructures as you need them, and leaving full-blown object notation for the larger, more important aspects of your program.

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      Grease Paint and Monkey Brains

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      • D David Stone

        It's Java_Script_. Java sucks. JavaScript is amazing. I can't believe you don't like it. And by the way, it's nicer if you develop for firefox, then port hacks to IE. Just my opinion, anyway.

        Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
        -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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        Paul Watson
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        David Stone wrote:

        JavaScript is amazing

        I wouldn't call it amazing. I would say it is just nicer than we all previously thought :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

        Shog9 wrote:

        eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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          :( I'm developing an asp.net application and we're using a UI framework for it. I'm finding all sorts of cases where I have to use a little Java code to get things done the way I want. No point really, just something I spent a lifetime consciously avoiding is now dropped in my lap. Going from windows form development to asp.net web development even with the aid of all the best and most modern tools in the world is pretty overwhelming. Almost nothing you learned has any relevancy other than the nut's and bolts code behind the scenes. One thing that's a bit humorous is seeing all the workarounds for FireFox in the automatically generated javascript coming from both Microsoft and our UI framework components. Every time I open up the markup page to see what's what I see all sorts of comments "fix for firefox" or "workaround for firefox".

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          Paul Watson
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          Anyone who calls it "web nonsense" had better get a clue :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

          Shog9 wrote:

          eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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          • P Paul Watson

            David Stone wrote:

            JavaScript is amazing

            I wouldn't call it amazing. I would say it is just nicer than we all previously thought :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

            Shog9 wrote:

            eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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            David Stone
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            Well yeah...that's true. You know what is amazing? C# 3.0 and LINQ. So :cool:.

            Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
            -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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            • P Paul Watson

              David Stone wrote:

              JavaScript is amazing

              I wouldn't call it amazing. I would say it is just nicer than we all previously thought :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

              Shog9 wrote:

              eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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              David Stone
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              Oh, by the way, you never did answer my question. How'd you like the CPhog beta?

              Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
              -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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              • D David Stone

                Well yeah...that's true. You know what is amazing? C# 3.0 and LINQ. So :cool:.

                Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                Paul Watson
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                David Stone wrote:

                You know what is amazing? C# 3.0 and LINQ

                Hell yeah. I want to be using it now. CPhog. I went sailing last night instead of installing the beta. I know, what a poor choice on my part. I'll try and get around to it today. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                Shog9 wrote:

                eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                  :( I'm developing an asp.net application and we're using a UI framework for it. I'm finding all sorts of cases where I have to use a little Java code to get things done the way I want. No point really, just something I spent a lifetime consciously avoiding is now dropped in my lap. Going from windows form development to asp.net web development even with the aid of all the best and most modern tools in the world is pretty overwhelming. Almost nothing you learned has any relevancy other than the nut's and bolts code behind the scenes. One thing that's a bit humorous is seeing all the workarounds for FireFox in the automatically generated javascript coming from both Microsoft and our UI framework components. Every time I open up the markup page to see what's what I see all sorts of comments "fix for firefox" or "workaround for firefox".

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                  John Cardinal wrote:

                  Going from windows form development to asp.net web development even with the aid of all the best and most modern tools in the world is pretty overwhelming. Almost nothing you learned has any relevancy other than the nut's and bolts code behind the scenes.

                  Intimate knowledge of the IDE is essential to getting anything done in asp.net

                  John Cardinal wrote:

                  One thing that's a bit humorous is seeing all the workarounds for FireFox in the automatically generated javascript coming from both Microsoft and our UI framework components. Every time I open up the markup page to see what's what I see all sorts of comments "fix for firefox" or "workaround for firefox".

                  I thnk that's pretty funny considering IE's own lack of standards support. ------- sig starts "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                    David Stone wrote:

                    You know what is amazing? C# 3.0 and LINQ

                    Hell yeah. I want to be using it now. CPhog. I went sailing last night instead of installing the beta. I know, what a poor choice on my part. I'll try and get around to it today. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                    Shog9 wrote:

                    eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                    David Stone
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                    Paul Watson wrote:

                    Hell yeah. I want to be using it now.

                    I am using it now. ;P

                    Paul Watson wrote:

                    CPhog. I went sailing last night instead of installing the beta.

                    C'mon man, where are your priorities?! :rolleyes:

                    Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                    -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                    • D David Stone

                      Paul Watson wrote:

                      Hell yeah. I want to be using it now.

                      I am using it now. ;P

                      Paul Watson wrote:

                      CPhog. I went sailing last night instead of installing the beta.

                      C'mon man, where are your priorities?! :rolleyes:

                      Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                      -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                      Paul Watson
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                      David Stone wrote:

                      I am using it now

                      In serious apps or for your personal projects? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                      Shog9 wrote:

                      eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                      • P Paul Watson

                        David Stone wrote:

                        I am using it now

                        In serious apps or for your personal projects? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                        Shog9 wrote:

                        eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                        David Stone
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                        Paul Watson wrote:

                        In serious apps or for your personal projects?

                        Apps dealing with large amounts of financial data... :rolleyes: No. I'm just using it for personal projects. It's pretty cool stuff. Then again, I'm also running PowerShell RC1, WinFX Beta 2,  Office 12 Beta 1, etc etc etc... :-D

                        Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                        -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                        • D David Stone

                          Paul Watson wrote:

                          In serious apps or for your personal projects?

                          Apps dealing with large amounts of financial data... :rolleyes: No. I'm just using it for personal projects. It's pretty cool stuff. Then again, I'm also running PowerShell RC1, WinFX Beta 2,  Office 12 Beta 1, etc etc etc... :-D

                          Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                          -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                          Paul Watson
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                          I just ran across a situation where I wanted to overload a method based on its return type. Brian says C# 3.0 will have that. Please sir, I want it now. Am I right in saying it is a language spec and compiler change and won't need any .NET Framework changes? That is cool. You still got the PowerShell RC1 download? I want it but can't get it from the MS site. I'll install CPHog beta now if you email PS RC1 to me :-D regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                          Shog9 wrote:

                          eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                            I just ran across a situation where I wanted to overload a method based on its return type. Brian says C# 3.0 will have that. Please sir, I want it now. Am I right in saying it is a language spec and compiler change and won't need any .NET Framework changes? That is cool. You still got the PowerShell RC1 download? I want it but can't get it from the MS site. I'll install CPHog beta now if you email PS RC1 to me :-D regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                            Shog9 wrote:

                            eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                            David Stone
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                            Paul Watson wrote:

                            Am I right in saying it is a language spec and compiler change and won't need any .NET Framework changes? That is cool.

                            You are correct in that it won't need massive CLR changes like generics, iterators, and anonymous methods did. There are definitely going to be some changes to the FCL though.

                            Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                            -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                            • D David Stone

                              Justin...think of who you're talking to. ;) I know all this. ;P I was just cushioning it so that John wouldn't start on the normal "You're just one of those crazy Fx zealots" excuses. :rolleyes:

                              Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                              -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                              Member 96
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                              :laugh: Actually it's out of my control, I'm not hand coding the pages, I don't have time for that, I'm using a UI component library and avoiding hand coding as much as possible. It appears from reading the comments here that the UI framework is targetting IE primarily with workarounds for FF. It's not a ware I want to get involved in, I just want it to work and I know for a fact 99% of our customers are using whatever browser was installed with their os anyway.

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                              • D David Stone

                                It's Java_Script_. Java sucks. JavaScript is amazing. I can't believe you don't like it. And by the way, it's nicer if you develop for firefox, then port hacks to IE. Just my opinion, anyway.

                                Oh geez... the forum keeps spinning... you'll take care o f it i'm sure, c'ause ... yeah, i neede this. *cough* anyway good job finding the bug.
                                -Shog9 on...a Firefox bug.

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                                Member 96
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                                Yes you're right. It's all java-greek to me but it does look a lot like stuff I'm familiar with and to be fair I don't need to hand code very much of it, the UI presentation layer framework we're using takes care of most of it.

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                                • L led mike

                                  Javascript is the best of the client side scripting languages. However it's support for OO is ummm well retarded? web development by it's very nature is horrid at best. I was doing it with CGI as early as … 94 i think on Apache using C and printf() to generate HTML. How fun does that sound! X| Now using Java or ASP.NET with DHTML and Javascript you have two of everything that you have to manage. Two languages (more if you count things like HTML, XML, XSLT, XPath), two object models, two sets of variables. All for the pleasure of creating a lowest common denominator user interface and experience. And we have not even addressed Browser Compatibility, Standards and Managers that have not a freakin clue about any of this but of course think they do because they put some pictures of their grandkids on a web site! :mad: Wait is this the Soapbox? Oh sorry.:-> led mike

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                                  Member 96
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                                  led mike wrote:

                                  I was doing it with CGI as early as … 94 i think on Apache using C and printf() to generate HTML. How fun does that sound!

                                  About as much fun as the previous version of the app I'm writing now which was also a web interface for our main commercial application but in 1999 I actually wrote teh web *server* to go with it so in one sense this is probably much easier.

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                                  • P Paul Watson

                                    Anyone who calls it "web nonsense" had better get a clue :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

                                    Shog9 wrote:

                                    eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                                    Member 96
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                                    :laugh: Well it's nonsense to me until it starts to make more sense. I'm not a neophyte at web stuff, I actually wrote the web *server* the previous incarnation of this app used back in 1999. A lot has changed since then.

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                                    • realJSOPR realJSOP

                                      John Cardinal wrote:

                                      Going from windows form development to asp.net web development even with the aid of all the best and most modern tools in the world is pretty overwhelming. Almost nothing you learned has any relevancy other than the nut's and bolts code behind the scenes.

                                      Intimate knowledge of the IDE is essential to getting anything done in asp.net

                                      John Cardinal wrote:

                                      One thing that's a bit humorous is seeing all the workarounds for FireFox in the automatically generated javascript coming from both Microsoft and our UI framework components. Every time I open up the markup page to see what's what I see all sorts of comments "fix for firefox" or "workaround for firefox".

                                      I thnk that's pretty funny considering IE's own lack of standards support. ------- sig starts "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                                      John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                                      Intimate knowledge of the IDE is essential to getting anything done in asp.net

                                      You got that right. I ended up watching some video's from MSDN. One was for Master pages and I learned a lot from that but the guy was ripping through the UI clicking about as fast as humanly possible and I had to keep pausing and re-watching it to see what he was clicking on and follow along. There is so much that is very subtly built into the IDE.

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                                      • M Member 96

                                        :( I'm developing an asp.net application and we're using a UI framework for it. I'm finding all sorts of cases where I have to use a little Java code to get things done the way I want. No point really, just something I spent a lifetime consciously avoiding is now dropped in my lap. Going from windows form development to asp.net web development even with the aid of all the best and most modern tools in the world is pretty overwhelming. Almost nothing you learned has any relevancy other than the nut's and bolts code behind the scenes. One thing that's a bit humorous is seeing all the workarounds for FireFox in the automatically generated javascript coming from both Microsoft and our UI framework components. Every time I open up the markup page to see what's what I see all sorts of comments "fix for firefox" or "workaround for firefox".

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                                        Pixa
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                                        What happened to workarounds for Opera? Now there's a good browser!

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                                        • P Pixa

                                          What happened to workarounds for Opera? Now there's a good browser!

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                                          I dunno, Opera is my preferred browser of choice and in testing it seems to work fine so I guess none are required or I haven't hit on anything too weird for it yet

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