[Javascript] DOM vs AJAX

[tedd at sperling.com (tedd)]

>>On 6/20/06, Mike Dougherty <mdougherty@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>Obviously there are correct uses for AJAX.  It allows cool things to be done in a browser that
>>>were simply not possible before.  None of the HowTo I have seen about AJAX discuss when NOT to use
>>>it.
>>
>>There's a pretty good treatment of when not to use AJAX in this book,
>>chapter 11:
>>
>>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076459723X/
>
>indeed i work with php. so regarding adding content when working with mysql
>and other php solutions there is no other way than AJAX / web 2.0 / ... .
>
>to bring it back to the basic idea of my post:
>
>index.htm f.e.:
><a href="...">add content</a>
><div id="newContent"></div>
>
>let's say the new content will be a <table>.
>1. the link now could call a javascript function that creates this table by createElement(...) (what i like to call DOM:) )
>2. the link could call a XMLHttpRequest, which returns the table that has been stored in a seperate file (what i call AJAX:) )
>
>i see the advantage in solution 2 because it's pretty easy to change the table, its layout whatever.
>you could even use a normal HTML editor to do that, but if you aren't that familiar with DOM,
>it would take me some time with the function.
>
>now which one do you prefer and what are the actual (dis-)advantages?!
>
>sorry, this is the way my first post was supposed to look like i guess;)
>(kind of hard writing english in the morning here in germany;)


Your English is better than my German.

Are you looking for something like this?

http://xn--ovg.com/ajax

tedd

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