[thelist] The Trouble with Web Applications

Danny Goodman dannyg at dannyg.com
Fri Jun 18 13:07:16 CDT 2004


on 6/18/04 8:12 AM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

>> Load all the possible selects at page load time.
> 
> This is a problem if you have 4 selections in the first <select>, but a
> possible of 1000 in the second. That's a lot of data to load into the
> background. 

If your audience is using IE5+/Windows, Mozilla-based browsers, or Apple
Safari, you might find a recent article of mine useful as an alternative way
to dynamically read external data (XML):

http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html

Danny
http://www.dannyg.com



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