Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears: Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites

Chapter 9.4. Summary

• Ajax is a useful tool when used wisely. The authors of WhatWhat Status were able to ensure that everyone using the product would have a modern Ajax-capable browser, so they made extensive use of Ajax in the project’s page to reduce the time their users wait for pages to reload and to make it easy to view or hide individual page elements dynamically according to what the user needs to see at the time.

• WhatWhat Status makes extensive use of JSON to pass data back to the client browser, where a simple eval turns the JSON string directly into JavaScript objects that can be used in JavaScript functions that update the page.

• The WhatWhat Status authors make use of the widely implemented innerHTML method to update various elements ...