Archive for February 2, 2006

This is the fourth installment in a series of four on the concept of Post Loading Resources into an HTML document after the document itself has been loaded. Using AJAX techniques and simple JavaScript library - the PLR framework – we can very easily get the browser to get hold of additional contents, after the document has been loaded. This content can come from a variety of sources, local or remote (using a Proxy Servlet), and can be processed in many ways. We have seen in the second installment how we simply paste the post loaded content into the innerHTML property of container elements like DIV or TD or the value property of Form elements. Part 3 discusses a more advanced version of PLR that can handle custom PLR processors as well as dependencies between differen PLR objects. This part also discussed the concept of HTML scraping. It also demonstrates how post loaded resources can be JavaScript libraries that can be dynamically added to the document. We have used that functionality to dynamically create SELECT elements and subsequently dynamically populate these lists with post loaded data.

In this part we will build upon the previous articles and add functionality to define a More >