[wilhelmtux-discussion] Code question re Microsoft's Digital Literacy tutorials (part of the IT-Fitness initiative)

Claude Almansi claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
Fri Oct 19 13:18:42 CEST 2007


Hi Manfred, Theo, Visnavath  and All

Thank you all for your explanations, which I will have to study
further to really understand.  But  is what I understood so far:
"Using AJAX to call a heavy tutorial object makes sense per se, though
not if you don't know how to,  and particularly not  if, moreover, the
conditions (server settings) are AJAX-unfriendly" a possible starting
point or totally off-beat?

Best

Claude

On 10/19/07, Manfred Morgner <manfred.morgner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hallo Claude,
>
> with the current Safari from MacOSX 10.4 it looks like your
> Screenshot from Firefox:
>
> - Firefox <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/
> 2262/1585956385_3ad39aab93_m.jpg>
>
>
> > with my deliberately limited version of Opera.  But the point is not
> > so much the graphics in the layout as the impossibility to open the
> > tutorial links at the bottom with these 4 browsers. Have you been able
> > to fix these links too?
>
> I didn't spent so much time on fixing the links. The link content is
> served by JavaScript code using a call as in AJAX. Funny is, that
> they didn't use a simple AJAX call from prototype.js - I believe, the
> creators of this page really need some advise in using Free Software.
> They added functionality which leads to the result we know - for no
> good reason.
>
> Solving this problem means, dealing with an unknown (not Free) server
> application using JS on the client side. This is possible, without
> doubt, but sometimes such problems are too expensive to become solved
> from an outsider - and only for fun. So I did not analyze the problem
> long enough to solve it. If I see code, using a well functional,
> tested and efficient toolbox (like prototype.js), blown up with
> senseless code but not working, I become too tiered to work on it.
>
> Some days ago I did some tests with prototype.js on my own Content-
> Presentation-System because I'm currently rewriting it, adding some
> functions with AJAX to upgrade my CPS to an CMS. The result was
> overwhelming. Prototype.js is a ready to use toolbox for AJAX, no
> need to add anything if you wish to make AJAX calls; it simply works
> as expected. I did tests on all well known Browsers but not with IE,
> because I don't have IE installed anywhere. But I'm sure, even the IE
> will work well with prototype.js.
>
> Best regards,
> Manfred.
>
>
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