[cgiapp] [OT] Re: [cgiapp] RE: Many HTML <select>'s ... one Data Source

[Cees Hek <suppressed>]

Eric Andreychek wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Bill McCormick wrote:
> > This seems like a great project; your web site presentation is very
> > helpful. I'll first take a look at the docs. The first thing I need to
> > see is how easily it integrates into my existing C::A framework. Does it
> > slide in or am I looking at a rewrite at some level? 
>
> One of OpenThought's chief benefits is that you don't have to reload the
> page.  The user already has a page loaded, you may simply want to fill a
> select list that is currently empty.

First of all I appologize to the list that this is going off topic, and 
I am willing to take this off list if requested.  Secondly a disclaimer 
-- I haven't yet had a close look at how OpenThought works and what it 
is capable of.  It definately looks very interesting, and when I find 
some time I plan to read up on it some more.

However, a thought comes to mind immediately.  Are you not partially 
re-inventing XML and XSLT?  It serves a similar purpose by only sending 
the design of the page once (the XSLT stylesheet) and only sending XML 
data on subsequent requests.  I have only worked with this once when I 
did some work on Apache::UploadMeter, so I am not and expert in XSLT and 
XML.  It is supported in all the major browsers (although I have only 
used it in Mozilla and IE).

I'm sure there are several key differences, but could you highlight the 
overlaps between these two technologies, and what makes OpenThought 
different/better?

Cheers,

Cees

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