[Chameleon] page refresh difference between IE and Firefox

[Paul Spencer]

Not that I know of ... yet.  We are working on getting some work that 
may enable us to build a piece like this for Chameleon and have been 
using XmlHttpRequest in some of our new custom applications, it works 
very well with one caveat: IE's support uses an ActiveX object and it is 
possible for the client to disable ActiveX so that your application will 
not work.  Other than that, it is very nice.  I think Google maps uses 
the iframe approach to avoid this issue!

Cheers

Paul

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> thanks for your answer. The Firefox guys did a far better design than 
> the  IE guys :)
> 
> I always wondered if the use of the XMLHttp javascript object could 
> help  this behaviour. Did anyone ever try to combine Chameleon with that?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:07:30 +0800, Jacob Delfos  
> <jacob.delfos at maunsell.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bart,
>>
>> I think it's just the way the browser was designed. Internet explorer  
>> immediately blanks the page when you change URL, and gradually builds 
>> it  up as it receives the new info. Firefox seems to wait until it 
>> has  received all the info it needs to completely build the layout of 
>> the new  page, and only then switches to the new page, keeping the old 
>> page on  the screen until then.
>>
>> I doubt you could change much about it, except loading everything in 
>> a  div, and using onload to make the div visible, so you don't see the 
>> site  being built up. This is actually why we use javascript for all 
>> our  production sites so far (and for performance). It is faster, and 
>> looks  much better from a user point of view.
>>
>> What I'd love to see one day, is all communication being done through 
>> an  invisible Iframe, and all elements being changed dynamically. Kind 
>> of  like opening drawmap.php in an Iframe, but instead of it returning 
>> an  image, it returns the javascript needed to change the URL of the  
>> mapimage (to a new static imagefile). I think google maps might also 
>> be  using this approach, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
>> To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>> Sent: 3/25/2005 8:55 PM
>> Subject: [Chameleon] page refresh difference between IE and Firefox
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> does anybody have a clue why Chameleon sites used in IE come back with a
>> fully white page after submit, and then start building the site again.
>> In
>> Firefox the site refresh is much nicer, for the user it seems only the
>> dynamic content (map, keymap etc.) is changing.
>>
>> Can anything be changed in the way the site refresh works in IE? Or is
>> this just the way IE operates?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
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