On 09/14/11 6:39 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Ajax/Jquery is someone else's parametrised programming language. It adds > complexity and overhead to what is fundamentally a very basic task. Ajax > etc. seem to appeal to people who are not good (or natural) programmers. > Ajax etc. is like programming with boxing gloves on and taking several > weeks to do it. If they want to use it, let them. Ajax is not a programming language, its a technique of implementing the client (browser) side of your applications in JavaScript, which is the programming language. ever use gmail or google documents? thats ajax. its interactive within the USER BROWSER without requiring round trips to the web server for every little operation such as summing up the checks entered in a form as they are being entered. An Ajax accounting program could be interactive like Quickbooks is, as opposed to fill in a static form and hit submit for every little action. And, if you've never used a SQL join, you don't know the first thing about *relational* databases, you've been using SQL as though it was a simple flat table ISAM, DBase-style circa 1983. Might as well use BerkeleyDB for that, its even faster and lighter weight. but, whatever. its your project, have at it. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast