[XQZone General] RE: General Digest, Vol 25, Issue 2

[Shannon Shiflett]

Andy, Kelly, Ron: Thanks for your fast, thorough, helpful responses-- 
as usual.  This list is super. :)

On Jul 11, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Kelly Stirman wrote:

> I would recommend looking at the following link as one example:
>
> http://binnyva.blogspot.com/2005/11/ahahasynchronous-html-over-http- 
> ajax.html
>
> There are plenty of examples floating around, but I like the  
> approach of using innerhtml rather than the DOM. AJAX is a lot of  
> things to a lot of people - I believe the above example gets you  
> all the functionality you need.
>
> One thing I would recommend is either waiting 100ms after the last  
> keystroke, or after three characters are filled out, otherwise  
> you're issuing many, many queries to the server.
>
> Kelly
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> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:29:57 -0400
> From: Shannon Shiflett <sss4r at virginia.edu>
> Subject: [XQZone General] Fun with Lexicons
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> Hi,
>
> At this year's developer's conference, I got a glimpse of a Web-
> based, real-world implementation of Mark Logic's lexicon API thanks
> to somebody's presentation (sorry I don't recall whose).  There might
> be a great use for it in one of my applications. Here's the plan: a
> field that drops down a selection of matches after 1,2, or 3 chars
> are input--given my data, using an element-attribute value lexicon.
> Sounds like JavaScript, but can this be done without AJAX?  I hear
> AJAX is not IE friendly.  (I'm not IE friendly, either, but most of
> our customers are.)
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
>
> Programmer/Analyst
> University of Virginia Press
> ROTUNDA Digital Scholarship
> Charlottesville, Virginia
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> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:29:46 -0400
> From: Andy Townsend <atownsen at wiley.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [XQZone General] Fun with Lexicons
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> Hi Shannon,
>
> I think this does need AJAX to do what you want in a nice way and I  
> also
> believe that AJAX is IE friendly (and IE is AJAX friendly) - I've seen
> AJAX working fine on IE.  For AJAX examples that do work on IE see  
> Google
> Suggest at http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en and some  
> general
> examples at http://www.clearnova.com/ajax/index.html.
>
> Andy
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> Hi,
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> At this year's developer's conference, I got a glimpse of a Web-
> based, real-world implementation of Mark Logic's lexicon API thanks
> to somebody's presentation (sorry I don't recall whose).  There might
> be a great use for it in one of my applications. Here's the plan: a
> field that drops down a selection of matches after 1,2, or 3 chars
> are input--given my data, using an element-attribute value lexicon.
> Sounds like JavaScript, but can this be done without AJAX?  I hear
> AJAX is not IE friendly.  (I'm not IE friendly, either, but most of
> our customers are.)
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
>
> Programmer/Analyst
> University of Virginia Press
> ROTUNDA Digital Scholarship
> Charlottesville, Virginia
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