Python or Ajax?

[Redefined Horizons]

I've been hearing a ot about AJAX lately. I may have to build a web
application in the near future, and I was curoius:

How does a web application that uses Python compare with one that uses AJAX?

I've done some basic web page design with HTML and CSS, but never any
web applications. I don't want to learn a new language if I can use
Python. Would AJAX offer me any significant advantages?

Thanks,

Scott Huey

[Larry Bates]

Re: Python or Ajax?

Redefined Horizons wrote:[color=blue]
> I've been hearing a ot about AJAX lately. I may have to build a web
> application in the near future, and I was curoius:
>
> How does a web application that uses Python compare with one that uses
> AJAX?
>
> I've done some basic web page design with HTML and CSS, but never any
> web applications. I don't want to learn a new language if I can use
> Python. Would AJAX offer me any significant advantages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Huey[/color]

First: AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

Second: You can't get around JavaScript on the client side, because it is
really the only language that browsers support natively. You can
certainly use Python, Twisted or Zope for providing XMLRPC services on
the server side.

Google's GWT toolkit (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/) has you write in Java
and it converts client portions to Javascript (if I'm understanding how it works).

-Larry Bates

[Ravi Teja]

Re: Python or Ajax?

> I've been hearing a ot about AJAX lately. I may have to build a web[color=blue]
> application in the near future, and I was curoius:
>
> How does a web application that uses Python compare with one that uses AJAX?
>
> I've done some basic web page design with HTML and CSS, but never any
> web applications. I don't want to learn a new language if I can use
> Python. Would AJAX offer me any significant advantages?[/color]

AJAX is *NOT* a programming language. It is a certain way of building
web applications. Any Python (or any other language) web framework may
be used, though some (TurboGears / LivePage etc) have explicit support
for it.

I bit of googling does not hurt.

[bruno at modulix]

Re: Python or Ajax?

Redefined Horizons wrote:[color=blue]
> I've been hearing a ot about AJAX lately. I may have to build a web
> application in the near future, and I was curoius:
>
> How does a web application that uses Python compare with one that uses
> AJAX?[/color]

How does a car that has a diesel motor compare with one that is red ?
[color=blue]
> I've done some basic web page design with HTML and CSS, but never any
> web applications.[/color]

Obviously !-)

So the first steps would be to learn what is AJAX (hint: it's not a
lnaguage), and what is the difference between client-side scripting and
server-side scripting.

HTH
--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"

[dingbat@codesmiths.com]

Re: Python or Ajax?

Redefined Horizons wrote:
[color=blue]
> How does a web application that uses Python compare with one that uses AJAX?[/color]

Mauve has the most RAM