Re: special immediate form: TREE special immediate form: TREE special immediate form: TREE

Dmitry Turin wrote:
> Often browser displays information from database.
> Typical operation is viewing of some TREE:
> smaller part of tree is shown in browser,
> bigger part was not still inquired from database.
>
> Let's enter a special form (looks like tree),
> which would immediately send request to server,
> if user opens folder (and wants to see sub-folders).
>  It would be very comfortable and economize time and torment
>  (especially for un-experienced user).

This use case is something that could be implemented today using 
XMLHttpRequest and existing markup such as ordered lists. IMHO, I cannot 
see a good enough argument for it to warrant its introduction to the 
HTML spec.  Others may disagree though...

Bruce

Received on Friday, 13 April 2007 12:34:11 UTC