Re: CGI::AJAX loading screen?

Do you really dislike Javascript to that extent?

If even a small number of the things you can possibly do with Javascript (in a web browser) were translated to have "server-side" implementations in CGI::Ajax (or GWT and - to some extent - ASP.net), those libraries would become massive, unwieldy beasts.

Javascript is a nice language for writing the client-side portion of a web application. It is a *small* language that has easily understandable semantics, but is not lacking in core features.

Javascript has a different kind of object-orientation than Java/C++, but as a perl coder that should not bother you ;)

It supports excellent (free) libraries including: Dojo, Mochikit, Prototype, YUI.

Unless/until perl becomes the defacto client-side web-application language (don't hold your breath), you'd me much better off learning Javascript.

I thoroughly recommend a combination of:

client written as HTML with "unobtrusive" Javascript, using the Dojo toolkit.
server implemented as Apache with mod_perl/FastCGI.
functionality written as perl classes dispatched from SOAP::Lite or JSONRPC.

-David.

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Re^2: CGI::AJAX loading screen? by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Mar 10, 2007 at 19:24 UTC
It's not so much that I dislike it, I just wanted to stay consistent. There's probably going to be a lot more functionality I'll need than CGI::AJAX can provide, so I'm sure I'll end up writing some javascript anyway. I'll look in to what you've recommended, Lord knows I could use help in learning it :-) Thanks for the advice! meh.	[reply]