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Converting a user management system to use ajax
I am currently building a website, which until quite recently was purely PHP. However I am now making trying to have the site use more AJAX, to lessen the page reloads. In PHP I had a lovely object ...
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How safe are hidden AJAX requests that fake performance?
What is a hidden AJAX request?
I've noticed an increase in the usage of hidden AJAX requests designed to make a user's action appear to happen immediately. I'll refer to this type of AJAX request as ...
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Best Practices for Multi-Page Form [closed]
I am currently building an eight page form (in WP) that will have well over 100 input fields. I know there are WP plugins for forms - I already tried them and didn't like them. Their UI's became ...
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How should I handle a redirect to an identity provider during a web api data request
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I have a single-page web app consisting purely of html, css, and javascript. After initial load and during use, it updates various views with data from one or more RESTful apis via ajax ...
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AJAX Requests & Client-Side JavaScript
I am new to AJAX and trying to understand a question I've been given:
A HTTP request is generated by a form which contains some drop-down list. When the form is submitted, a new web page is displayed ...
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Is it necessary to memorize code?
I am a new developer, who just got hired at a big company. I don't know how but I guess they are desperate. However, I am well-versed with HTML5/CSS3 though things change and new things are released ...
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Triggering custom events in AJAX callbacks
I'm pretty new to JavaScript, but one of the things that's been frustrating is that our AJAX callbacks have been getting packed with different functionality, making it difficult to keep everything ...
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How do I get started with HTML5? [closed]
What is the recommended workflow to learn HTML5? What tools should I install? What SDK? Where to start? How to test? How to debug? What do I read?
I understand that what is often labelled as "HTML5 ...
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Professional JavaScript/Web App Development
I want to get better at web development. I can use jQuery fine, I can get relatively complex client side interactions working. I know the basics of catching an error in jQuery and setting status ...
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Ajax race conditions
Is there a pattern or standard way to handle Ajax race conditions? Take the following example. You have two tables. Clicking a row on table 1 removes the data from DB and then updates table 2 (which ...
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how to choose a web framework and javascript library?
I've been procrastinating learning some framework for web apps w/ some library for AJAX, something like django with prototype, or turbogears with mootools, or zeta components with dojo, grok, jquery, ...
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How much AJAX is too much?
My current project is part of a highly linked architecture, with individual systems each owning certain pieces of data, and exposing them RESTfully. Both our web services and our user interface take ...
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when to load partial views
When creating a website, when should you load partial view and when should you do a complete page refresh?
I was looking at github's site and noticed that pretty much the only place they do partial ...
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How to talk a client out of a Flash website?
I have recently been doing a bunch of web side projects through word of mouth recommendations only. Although I am much more a of a programmer than a designer by any means, my design skills are not ...
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Easiest way to create static HTML file with sortable and filterable table?
I want to create a static HTML file I can email to someone with a lot of data, and have that data sortable and filterable. What is the easiest to use library or package I can use to get this off the ...
