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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).

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(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")
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