RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-10 Thread Rick Faircloth
f. It was that way when I first learned ColdFusion. Thanks, Rick -Original Message- From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 8:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Rick, >So the question, becomes

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-09 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Rick, >So the question, becomes... spend a lot of time now learning to implement >jQuery >and "Web 2.0" interfaces and functionality or wait for CF 8, see what it >provides, >and then just fill in any remaining gaps with "third-party" development? A couple of quick points: jQuery is more than ju

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-08 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
building apps. I work incrementally and it drives me nuts. - Original Message From: Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Talk Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2007 9:57:18 AM Subject: RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? > I guess we'll disagree on this. Th

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-08 Thread Rey Bango
> Why shouldn't we be able to have that sort of power with distributed > multiuser applications? There is no reason, other than inertia, why we > can't. Who says we don't? The apps that I built back in the early 90's worked quite well across the Enterprise even before the Internet became pervasi

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-08 Thread Dave Watts
> I guess we'll disagree on this. The evolution of libraries > such as jQuery, Dojo & YUI! have made development using these > technologies far too easy and with the adoption rates > continuing to climb, I can't call them band-aids. Perhaps > thats what they were when people initially did remot

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-08 Thread James Holmes
Or Apollo. That's the whole point of it; freeing internet technologies from the restrictions of the browser. On 4/8/07, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you need to build a desktop application, then use > desktop development tools such as MS' suite of .Net tools. > > I'm still not convince

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-08 Thread Rey Bango
Hi Dave, > Flex applications can work pretty well without any more bandwidth than a > typical web application. The big limitation is the requirement of Flash > Player 9, and related to that the inability to run Flex applications without > a standard desktop computer. I'll try that out with ScrapB

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-08 Thread Dave Watts
> I think Flex is a better solution for developing desktop-like > applications that have a requirement of broadband service or > will be focused on internal networks (similar to > client/server apps). For a typical consumer-oriented website > where you need to accommodate for a variety of conne

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
al Message- From: James Holmes To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Apr 08 03:14:07 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Of course Flex is one of the primary development platforms for Apollo... On 4/8/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For sure, Fle

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Rey Bango
> And finally, Flex is a much better solution for applications than AJAX, > which is a collection of band-aids applied to the sucking wound that is HTML > interface development. I think Flex is a better solution for developing desktop-like applications that have a requirement of broadband service

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread James Holmes
Of course Flex is one of the primary development platforms for Apollo... On 4/8/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For sure, Flex has some kick ass neat stuff and I can see where it does make > sense (if I look hard enough), but I think that Apollo as an RIA makes more > se

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the perspective, Jim... -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 2:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? > -Original Message- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ation are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Paul Hastings To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Apr 07 21:47:24 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wro

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Paul Hastings
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > "And finally, Flex is a much better solution for applications than AJAX, > which is a collection of band-aids applied to the sucking wound that is HTML > interface development." > > In your opinion :-) ditto for yours that flex isn't so hot. we've done a lot of

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Dave Watts To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Apr 07 22:16:44 2007 Subject: RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? > I guess Flex is an option,

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Watts
> I guess Flex is an option, but I've tried working with Flash > with every version that has come out, and I've hated working > with the Flash timeline. > It's not that I'm unfamiliar with timelines... I've been > using them edit video for the past 12 years. I just found > the Flash interface

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Andy Matthews
Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Rick, Neil said it perfectly. Its good to know the ins and outs of Ajax but more specifically, DOM manipulation. Ajax functionality is a very small aspect of what everyone regards as Web 2.0-style development and whether you're using jQuery, Prototy

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? > > Hi, all.. > > Just wanted to throw this out for some perspective. > > For a few years I've been

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
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Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
arily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Apr 07 18:33:04 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Dreamweaver CS3 will have SPR

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Casey Dougall
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Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Rey Bango To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Apr 07 16:37:11 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? R

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
sarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: James Holmes To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Apr 07 16:08:47 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? If by "rubbish" you mean the most productive

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Paul Hastings
Rick Faircloth wrote: > I guess Flex is an option, but I've tried working with Flash with every > version that has come out, and I've hated working with the Flash timeline. the timeline has gone bye-bye as far as flex is concerned. > why I would even consider it. And there also the face that I h

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Rey Bango
> Flex and AJAX both have their place and they can both be very uselful > - they can even work with one another using the Flex-AJAX bridge. Yep, very true. The only thing that Adobe has not effectively done is clarify when either technology should be used. I really think that needs to be address

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Rey Bango
Rick, Neil said it perfectly. Its good to know the ins and outs of Ajax but more specifically, DOM manipulation. Ajax functionality is a very small aspect of what everyone regards as Web 2.0-style development and whether you're using jQuery, Prototype or whatever CF8 provides, you need to fami

RE: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Rick Faircloth
#x27;m already purchasing CF 8... Rick -Original Message- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Rick Faircloth wrote: > For a few years I've been wanting t

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread James Holmes
Neil (RX) wrote: > Coz it's rubbish :-) > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hastings > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Sat Apr 07 15:22:14 2007 > Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? > > Rick Faircloth wrote: > > For a few years I&#x

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
at Apr 07 15:22:14 2007 Subject: Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later? Rick Faircloth wrote: > For a few years I've been wanting to get in on the Ajax-style development. why not flex? ~| ColdFusion MX7

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Paul Hastings
Rick Faircloth wrote: > For a few years I've been wanting to get in on the Ajax-style development. why not flex? ~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.

Re: A Question for Development: Ajax Now or Ajax Later?

2007-04-07 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
No harm in learning the ins and outs now, as undoubtedly the Adobe integration will hand feed the developer and when you need to something more advanced you will be pinging lists asking how (which of course is what lists are for) An hour or so would familiarise you with Ajax development to a degre