The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

[Trevor DeVore]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Trevor.....
>
> On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> Getting things to work across browsers can be a headache.
>
> Start with the basic assumption that only a browser that groks the  
> XMLHTTPRequest object is a candidate for AJAX technology  
> deployment. The subset of those browsers is already very far down  
> the path of eliminating or minimizing cross-browser problems. The  
> problems arise because of the necessity most of us as Web  
> developers feel we have to drag along the pre-modern browsers. If  
> you focus only on the most recent generation of browsers, the cross- 
> browser problems are becoming fewer and fewer, and libraries and  
> functions exist to abstract away from those pretty easily.

This is true.  I was just writing something similar to your response  
to Chipp.  If you dive into this I would be interested to hear your  
experience with it.  My experience with testing apps running inside a  
browser in the past has been less than pleasant.  A really good  
library for interacting with the DOM that has support for drag/drop  
and other interface niceties is a must if you are going to get into  
browser based web apps.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com