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Gmail coding.

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:25 am
by mudkicker
HEy people i have one more question.

if you ever tested gmail or you have an account of it i think you saw that it's coding is very fast and cool.
for example by clicking composing mail it opens like a slide show.

it could be a javascript but ijust a javascript can do these all?

i'm waiting for your ideas. thanks! :roll: :idea:

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:06 pm
by John Cartwright
Yes JS can do that

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:13 pm
by mudkicker
thanks for your reply but how? is there any source (tutorial, article etc.) about this kinda js coding?

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:58 pm
by John Cartwright
dont take my word for it, but i think it has to do with layering with focus attributes..

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:03 pm
by Roja
It uses javascript with an xmlrpc backend - which is what makes it seem so fast. Its actually making dozens of html calls each minute, so that it doesnt have to do them when you actually click.

Its brilliant, imho. I also have several gmail invites if someone needs one.

Google: What is [google]xml-rpc[/google] ?
Keith Devens has a fantastic XML-RPC library for PHP here: http://keithdevens.com/software/xmlrpc

Hope that helps.

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:40 am
by mudkicker
thank you for your crash course :) well i think i need to examine this stuff more...