GUI controls for instrumentation

[Joe Desbonnet]

I would love to see the DHTML/AJAX stuff in action, if it's convenient
to make available as a demo page.
Thanks,
Joe.

On 3/30/06, T. E. Pickering <tim at mmto.org> wrote:

> that said, interface stuff i'm currently working on is utilizing AJAX
> techniques to interface with php and ruby back-ends.  so far i'm
> finding this a lot more flexible in many ways than using some widget
> set thanks to the extreme mutability of DHTML.  i also like the fact
> that you can write one piece of software rather than two.  the back-end
> generates its own interface.  for other things there's a degree of
> clumsiness when dealing with the browser sandbox and trying to get it
> to interact with other things on the system.  javascript can't do
> system calls while system calls from php/cgi run as user apache.  this
> is a deal-breaker for some of our stuff, but not an issue for many
> other things.
>
> tim
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