Ajax in Django
by Artur Cistov on Jul 15, 2010
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Ajax in Django — Presentation Transcript
- So who's this dude? Art(h)ur Working at Tesco Diets Taming the unruly browsers (more often the other way round)
- http://slideshare.net/cistov
- Not a 'howto' talk
- So, Ajax...
- Clearly the most over hyped cleaning liquid ever
- Say Ajax again!
- Widely adopted
- Ajax in broad sense
- DRY
- Django Goals
- 1.Make web development stupidly fast
- 2. Automate the repetitive stuff
- 3. Practice loose coupling
- 4. Follow best practices
- 5. Be efficient
- Pinax as 'Django with bigger opinion'
- But...
- 'Django often gets marked down in a "framework comparisons" due to the lack of built in Ajax support. Personally I think that not shipping with a single library is a feature, not a bug.' Simon Willison
- Giants & their shoulders
- Fred
- Exhibit A: ASP.NET UpdatePanel
- Concerns: Multiple scripts Filesize Performance Generated Markup Accessbility SEO Tied to specific library Extension of builtin types
- Exhibit B: Rails helpers
- Concerns: Generated Markup Accessbility SEO Tied to specific library Extension of builtin types
- Exhibit C: Cappucino/GWT
- Concerns: Accessbility SEO
- If you have two separate versions, this approach may make sense
- Chances are, you're not building GMail though
- http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
- Should I even be bothered?
- iPhone supports JavaScript
- Ok, slow JavaScript, but still?
- ¿Habla HTML?
- <rant>
- </rant>
- “Just as easy as not to”
- 3
- Hooks
- Clean HTML
- Libraryagnostic
- Loose coupling
- Drivers
- Caching
- Even backend agnostic
- Artur, this is all great, but Ruby meet up is next month
- Meet 40 lines of messy code
- HttpRequest.is_ajax() is your friend
- Poor man's singlepaged applications
- Dependencies
- Providing configuration data on page load
- CSS classes?
- Custom attributes?
- data* hell?
- Inline objects?
- Unit Testing
- Extending functionality
- Callbacks?
- Custom events?
- Inheritance?
- Data Access?
- XSS/XSRF & JSON APIs
- GWT Query
- Future?
- Image Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/atauri/2358057325/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmcneill/4169128852/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/3650862305/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/2800244229/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2803365394/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/317125573/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/young_einstein/74097753/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewm/4749504388/
- Questions? http://www.slideshare.net/cistov http://www.twitter.com/cistov
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