Sat doodling today and thought of the idea of AJAX-powered forums being written in Rails, or if really needed, PHP. I was wondering if there is currently a sortof market for it :? An AJAX-Powered Rails Forum. Not free, but for a small monthly fee of like US$5.
Ajax forums already exist and generally they are worse than regular ones. Making everything use Ajax is a bit silly but using it in a regular forum where appropriate is better imo. PHPBB has some plugins to AJAXify most of it as does VB and other well known and widely used forums.
Not saying it couldn't work just at the moment the ones that have been implemented are not good.
I think it'd just be useful for loading in posts, but beyond that, I don't really see a use for it
[QUOTE=Knallex;39427605]I think it'd just be useful for loading in posts, but beyond that, I don't really see a use for it[/QUOTE]
Registration forms to check username not taken and shit, editing profiles etc. Basically anywhere there is a form. I'd rather post loading was NOT done by ajax.
[QUOTE=HTF;39435680]Registration forms to check username not taken and shit, editing profiles etc. Basically anywhere there is a form. I'd rather post loading was NOT done by ajax.[/QUOTE]
Hey, you stole my Steam Avatar :O!
[QUOTE=Potato Cube;39435701]Hey, you stole my Steam Avatar :O![/QUOTE]
I screencapped my avatar from an interview with gaben that I watched so I did not steal anything ^^
[QUOTE=HTF;39438305]I screencapped my avatar from an interview with gaben that I watched so I did not steal anything ^^[/QUOTE]
That's exacly what I did :D
Great minds think alike.
I've seen an implementation of SMF where some customized it to do this. It was done very well. It can work if done properly.
[QUOTE=CountNoobula;39424532]Sat doodling today and thought of the idea of AJAX-powered forums being written in Rails, or if really needed, PHP.[/QUOTE]
If you plan on loading all your boards with threads and posts off of one page then take navigation into account.
[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]
Some people may prefer static pages that they can bookmark or easily open in another tab/window.
[url]http://try.discourse.org/[/url]
[QUOTE=camacazie638;39476252]If you plan on loading all your boards with threads and posts off of one page then take navigation into account.
[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]
Some people may prefer static pages that they can bookmark or easily open in another tab/window.[/QUOTE]
That shouldn't be a problem since you would probably use a hash based system, which means you can link to it.
[editline]7th February 2013[/editline]
And with something like SammyJS you wouldn't even need to do that.
[QUOTE=commander204;39509816]That shouldn't be a problem since you would probably use a hash based system, which means you can link to it.
[editline]7th February 2013[/editline]
And with something like SammyJS you wouldn't even need to do that.[/QUOTE]
I thought I would mention hashes, hmm.
Another interesting way would be to utilize a 404 page, run the [I]request_uri[/I] from the request header against a database...
[editline]8th February 2013[/editline]
Its all available, 404s or hashes or cookies, whichever, or whatever.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
