Web Application Client Module

[Adonis]

Raffi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I hope I'm posting this question to the correct newsgroups. We have a
> web based database application that's accessed using IE. The
> application opens a popup window to run in. With all the popup blockers
> and compromised browsers out there, I'm looking into developing a web
> based custom client side application to access the application with.
> The application will be developed to only reach the web application
> site using the https protocol. It also needs to javascript enabled. It
> will be downloaded from the main web site and used to access the
> database application.
> 
> Any suggestions/ideas on how to go about developing the client
> application? What tools tools are out there for such a project.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raffi
> 

This is slightly what I am doing right now, you can use the JavaScript 
on the browser to (mainly the XMLHttpRequest object) to access servers 
asynchronously, when accessing the server's resource it returns an XML 
representation (document) of whatever you want using the browser's 
builtin DOM you can parse this and using the same DOM you can modify the 
predefined tags or whatever you want.  This approach reduces the traffic 
to the webserver by only accessing data you need. go to cherrypy.org and 
right on the start page there should be a link labeled AJAX which is the 
buzzword being used for this kind of implementation.

Hope this helps.

Adonis