[dev] another AJAX based webapp...

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Marc Jauvin <marc at r4l.com>:

> Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org> wrote:
>
>> And in the interest of actually adding something to this thread... a
>> few additional comments.  I definitely am of the belief that the
>> technology tends to be overused - sort of a "let's use ajax everywhere
>> because it is cool" instead of "where would ajax improve the
>> look/feel/UI experience of the particular application/page".  That's
>> why I personally think some sort of slow rollout of ajax features would
>> be useful, but trying to convert horde into a full ajax app doesn't
>> make sense.
>
> Well said, I agree with that.
>
>> that being said, i think a goal for Horde 3.1 (or 3.2) could be to
>> implement ajax in the menubar - this is a location where ajax
>> functionality would be useful, faster, and clean.  For imp I could see
>> ajax being useful to automatically update message lists and the folder
>> listing.
>
> "automatic update of message lists and the folder listing"
>
> Those are exactly the things I think would really make Horde feel a lot
> more like a local application. There could also be some use for the
> email address expansion in the compose dialog.

one more i though of in imp - updating the search screen when the 
search parameters are changed (also ingo - updating the filter entry 
screen when the filter parameters are changed).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]