From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T07:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What's beyond Rails?

Francis Hwang wrote:
> 
> For those of us who don't know, care to post a quick explanation of what 
> a post-back is? I Googled it but only got a bunch of ASP.NET pages. And 
> if I'm gonna read about Microsoft APIs, somebody better be paying me.

I take it you either do not use the XmmlHttpRequest object, or are paid 
to read about it?

:)


Actually, from  poking around MSDN, I get the sense that postbacks are 
mix of XMlHtppRequest calls (or the like) and DHTML.  Client-side form 
objects send HTTP posts back to the server, where request handlers reply 
with some data, and the page is then updated.  Remote scripting, again.

James