Now I am confused. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. But "AJAX effects" == visual effects? You have to publish your own dictionary, man. Could you be more specific about drag-and-drop being a visual effect? I was always thinking that it is much much more than that --- a functional manipulator with convenient visual feedback, where the core part is the manipulator. I saw it implemented back in text-only days practically without visual feedback.
Any library, which has Ajax in the name, provides a wrapper for XHR. That's how it can be AJAX library. Interesting that you are concerned about "visual effects" dependency but not XHR dependency. Why? Thanks, Eugene PS: XHR is a visual effect, which allows you to do synchronous and asynchronous calls to server directly from JavaScript without (re)loading HTML page. It is used for another visual effect called "dynamic callback". "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/15/05, Eugene Lazutkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are these mysterious "AJAX effects" you talking about in your posts? > Is > it the same as "AJAX in the core" or different beast? As I mentioned in an earlier message, many "AJAX libraries" provide a large stable of DHTML components which produce visual effects such as animated show/hide, drag-and-drop, etc. Which effects a library provides and how much cross-browser compatibility its effects have are, to me, important factors in choosing a library, and I was mulling over the idea of whether Django's admin could get away with bundling a stripped-down library which only included those effects the admin actually uses. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin
