On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > > There is one other way to solve it, which would let you keep the tree view > without spamming the client with the entire tree on the first /tree page > load: Ajax. >
There's been some experimentation with "alternative UIs" using AJAX and the JSON API, as well as libfossil script bindings over CGI, but i haven't hacked on them in some time b/c i'm having too much fun working on the newer scripting engine: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/fwiki/editor/ http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil/cgidemo/ Both are only proofs of concept apps, but i _do_ use a custom fossil front-end for some of my wikis, where i store the wiki pages in Google Code wiki format, save them in fossil, but do the rendering on the client side: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/wikis/ those use a 100% custom Fossil UI, using the JSON API for all communication with fossil. It's not a paragon of web design (i've got no gift for making sites pretty, and that demo is relatively old, so no require.js), but it proves that it can be done. There's _lots_ yet to experiment with in that regard - it's only a matter of time. Speaking of latency, if you are thinking of objecting that the XHR requests > would add noticeable latency vs the current scheme, where all the data is > already present and just has to be displayed, I speak from experience when > I tell you that you can get an XHR round-trip time down into that > double-digit millisecond range. More speed simply isn’t necessary when > dealing with human reaction time. > You don't have to convince me, but as you say: it'd be a lot of work. It'd be easier to do such work in new trees, i think, and my own personal TODO list in this regard is longer than my hair. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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