Long ago, we used to generate html web pages from webspeed by code that {&OUT}'ed html strings.
Given modern standards (like, only supporting HTML5) , what's the best way of doing this now ?
If I have a table of data to display, is the best way to make this available as json data and get some javascript library to display ?
How do you handle single fields (e.g. "This is order xx for customer yy") in the html ?
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Check out the talks given at the last couple of Exchange conferences by Dustin Grau from BravePoint. He also did them at BravePoint VI.
In other words: Ajax.
I presume that you use javascript to change the text contents of
certain elements within the dom ?
On 3 September 2011 10:32, Peter van Dam
Yes that is what Ajax is all about.
Check out www.futureproofsoftware.com for a primer on the subject.
thanks. so, ajax combined with css can cater for most of the html elements now.
Thanks for the link.
On 3 September 2011 11:48, Peter van Dam
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I'd move over to using eScript (www.proaxima.com) to seperate bsuiness logic & UI.
As for the table question... well you still want to output it as a table. Are you talking about how to populate the table? Yes Ajax is something you can use, and with eScript you can write your HTML and use functions to return the contents in each cell. Rather than writing PROGRESS code to output HTML, you write HTML and put Progress functions in there to return data you wish to output.
~Ian