(jptxs)2 Re: building an HTML based tree UI

actually, I have NO control over the browsers =( That's why I want to do this in perl on the server-side for sure. I should've had said that, you're right.

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Re: (jptxs)2 Re: building an HTML based tree UI by voyager (Friar) on Apr 18, 2001 at 20:09 UTC
But the solution will require client-side scripting to give the kind of performance users will expect from folder-like display. Unless you have very patient users and a very fast server, you can't afford a trip to the server everytime a user expands/collapses a folder (or tree-node or whatever).	[reply]
(tye)Re: building an HTML based tree UI by tye (Sage) on Apr 18, 2001 at 20:57 UTC
Actually, I've used relatively browser-idependant (required frames) web interfaces with tree controls that were about as fast as (sometimes faster than) using Windows Explorer (the file explorer, not IE). This probably has a lot to do with how slow Windows Explorer can be. (: But that does help "set the bar" of user expectation so that a portable web interface is not unreasonable. I appreciated being given the option of a reasonable interface without having to open myself up to JavaScript attacks (or even pop-up ads). (Then the web mail software was upgraded and the tree control disappeared and the site became amazingly slow.) - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]