Emanuele_Ciriachi
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Dynamic web forms: which web language is better, and why?
Now this is a hard question, I know, hence the big points bill.
As a user of Internet, I have seen many, well designed dynamic forms, while others are truly terrible.
As a programmer, I have wrote some of them myself, but these employed a quite simple mechanism: they use the "onchange" event to call JavaScript functions that cause the reload of the page with different GET parameters in the URL. This is indeed not the best solution, as it will cause an enervating pause while waiting the page to reload.
Many pages I've seen don't use this technique, even Experts Exchange has a better solution: when I click on the "+" near "Web Languages" the list of sub-topics will appear instantly, without reloading the page.
Now, given the fact that I want a code which will load only once, and that eventual, run-time modifications of the page will happen without further re-loads, which technology should I employ? Applets? JSP? Even, say, Flash forms?
I am very interested about your opinion and experience.
As a user of Internet, I have seen many, well designed dynamic forms, while others are truly terrible.
As a programmer, I have wrote some of them myself, but these employed a quite simple mechanism: they use the "onchange" event to call JavaScript functions that cause the reload of the page with different GET parameters in the URL. This is indeed not the best solution, as it will cause an enervating pause while waiting the page to reload.
Many pages I've seen don't use this technique, even Experts Exchange has a better solution: when I click on the "+" near "Web Languages" the list of sub-topics will appear instantly, without reloading the page.
Now, given the fact that I want a code which will load only once, and that eventual, run-time modifications of the page will happen without further re-loads, which technology should I employ? Applets? JSP? Even, say, Flash forms?
I am very interested about your opinion and experience.
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Sorry, i forgot to finish answering your question. As for the server side language, you'll probably want to stick with PHP. It's very powerful and has a support community larger than you'd ever need. Not to mention, its free. Coldfusion is excellent in my opinion, but expect to shell out some good money for it. The standard edition is $1,300, with the enterprise version up to $6,000.
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