[Gambas-user] new name for proposed "gb.ajax"

[Rob]

I think it's going to end up being "gb.dojo".  Dojo is still new 
(version 0.4 just came out), and the documentation is about at 
the point where Gambas was at its own 0.4 release (not much of 
it), but its API almost seems like a minimal Gtk sort of thing:

http://dojotoolkit.org/api/?#dojo.widget

And they're addressing some of the concerns people had with 
adapting Gambas apps to the web, like having to send huge lists 
of data down to the browser for data-bound combo boxes:

http://manual.dojotoolkit.org/WikiHome/DojoDotBook/Book44/Book79

You can do all the buzzword-compliant stuff like JSON and XMLHttp 
and XMLRPC, or you can even use Iframes to send data back and 
forth for old, busted browsers.  (Been there, done that.... you 
don't want to do that unless you really have to.)

I get the sense that it's not what you would call lightweight, 
but I've never seen any Javascript framework that was this 
complete or desktop-like before.  I look forward to trying it 
out as soon as I free up some time.

Of course, you could use dojo by itself in your Gambas CGI 
applications already, if you wanted to ;)

Rob