DiMono wrote:
Heehee... you're playing with AJAX.
The Rooster Teeth site uses AJAX for modding, and there were problems with Safari on a MAC. They also use dropdowns for modding though, so it could be related to the fact it's happening using "onchange" rather than functioning based on a link.
From what I can gather (and I might be wrong) "
Safari"
uses the same code base as Konqueror from KDE.
This modding all works beautifully with Konqueror, however the current 'on' format of the 'click the bar' doesn't work with Konqueror, so that may be similar to the Safari 'onchange' you mention.
By the way, I HATE THE TERM "
AJAX"
- it's a silly, nothingness name, and a tenuous 'clever' acronym, that was probably invented by some marketing person without a job.
It's a http fetch of data from within a javascript page, on demand, and then the javascript can use that data to update the page. Very nice, and very useful, but the technology is still javascript/html/http (and a cgi backend of some sort)
(I remember seeing a site ages ago use a hacky version where they create an onload of a dynamic '.js' file that is sent back with appropriate javascript values set... Though unlike the javascript-http-fetch, I don't think it could be done more than once on a page...)
But yeah, the idea is neat, and results are neat.
A big "
yay"
and a big "
wooo!"
to the http-request-from-within-javascript but please, do we have to have a silly name for it ?
OR, as I say on my homepage:
Ok, I hate "buzz-words". You didn't surf here. They are "diaries" not "weblogs". Links are selected and followed, not 'clicked". There is no super-highway (apart from the road you drive along), and this page isn't under construction - I just haven't had enough spare time to waste on creating it.
So, if you need to go "surfing", "click", and hear "drive carefully", I suggest you first get into your car, tap your fingers, and then drive to the beach.
But then, I am a moody old git
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