From: Tony De <tonydema@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T07:02:40+09:00
Subject: Re: AJAX without Rails

Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Tony De <tonydema@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>        ......................... it seems that all the page magic is coded into the
>>  web page itself.  I didn't see any info (perhaps that's not how JQuery
>>  works) on accessing the DOM elements from a cgi or ruby code.
> 
> That's not how it works, period. JavaScript running in the browser
> sends a request to a server process, which returns a response; it's
> up to the in-page JS to handle the response appropriately.
> 
> But there's no way for the server to directly manipulate anything on
> the client.

@ Hassan,

Ok, I get that part.
So, for example, looking at the examples on the JQuery website.  When I 
look at the source or any of the example page demos, which as I 
understand it is using AJAX, I don't see any call to an external script. 
It appears it is handling things locally, perhaps sending the request to 
the "local" AJAX server, but not a a server script (say cgi) and the 
script sending a request back to the AJAX server on the client.

tonyd
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