Re: Single Page Applications

I'm not sure it's the size of the button. I am using both an iPhone 6 and an iPad, and I can click the button ok but nothing happens when I do. I am in deepest darkest France at the moment so maybe it's something to do with the speed of my connection.

I am not really comparing it to anything, I was just trying to work out what it was you were trying to demonstrate, and what it was an alternative to. Since we are bypassing all that conversation about .net/cobol/cgi etc and concentrating on SPA techniques, I was guessing it is something to do with that. The way we do it there is no HTML exchanged between the client and server (apart from the tiny index.html file that kicks things off). Just the data model (JSON) is exchanged, and the UI reacts to the content via observers - basically events that get triggered when a data element in the model changes. I am guessing in you demo the JSON data maps directly to the DOM element it relates to.

Sent from my iPad

On 29 May 2015, at 16:41, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried it on my phone Nathan, but nothing seemed to happen when I clicked
the button.

Okay, I made the <button> bigger ;-)

It works on my Android phone and iPad tablet. What phone are you using?

That aside, I am not sure I understand the benefit of downloading html and
JSON in this way. Can you elaborate?

I'm a little confused by the question. The thing that distinguishes this
approach is not the asynchronous "downloading" of content; a very common
requirement.

I'll assume that you're referring to the automated "merging" of an HTML
template with a JSON object and appending the results to an HTML
"container", such as a <div>.

For me, this is about minimizing custom coding requirements in new
applications; hence a "utility" that is smart enough to merge complex
"data" and "layout". It's about performing that step on the client rather
than on the server.

From a UI perspective, visual transformations are more fluid. Download HTML
templates only once during the life of a page. Download data incrementally
and append additional content, such as adding to a list.

Regarding benefits, I suppose it depends on what you're comparing to. What
are you comparing it to?
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