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[nycphp-talk] AJAX and State

tedd tedd at sperling.com
Wed Sep 5 08:55:50 EDT 2007


At 8:20 AM -0400 9/5/07, bz-gmort at beezifies.com wrote:
>Hans Zaunere wrote:
>>Ajax solves this problem neatly by letting you move all state [1] into
>>>the browser.  This makes sense from an architectural viewpoint because
>>>we are putting this context information close to where it is needed,
>>>the UI.
>>>
>>
>>I'm not sure what you mean, though, by keeping state in the browser.  Here's
>>essentially what's work for me in the past:P
>>
>
>I read the above as, to take a simple example:

I read your "simple example" and see that you can do it w/wo ajax -- 
but I don't see the advantage in using ajax other than presentation.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ajax (and ahah) only a 
means to communicate with the server without causing a refresh? Does 
ajax provide something beyond that?

Cheers,

tedd

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