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Peter said:This implies you *expect* someone here to give it to you.
Yes you are right, that's not want I meant. I wan't asking anyone to
write anything, I really thought an example would already be close at
hand. I'd be happy with "sorry, we don't know of any working examples."
I'd say "thanks for answering my question. "
People here
are *extremely* helpful if you ask politely, you gloss over any
perceived abrasiveness that may simply be a result of quickly chosen
words and you are patient.
The person taking the time to reply probably thought they were being
helpful by pointing you in the right direction and then you could take
the next step of investigation.
In a working example you are probably going to see something clicked
and then text appear on the screen. Where will that get you?
That will then let me see the code in context, which is much less
confusing than trying to get pieces to work. I can never get the pieces
to fit together, and even if I do I still don't know if what I've built
will work in all browsers or if I've just done one step in a greater
application.I'm surprised you don't understand the difference.
You will
then have to look at the code and for Ajax that requires a bit of
theory and probably a tutorial which is what you've bocked at reading.
The tutorials make alot more sense when I can see the code as part of a
working example. Otherwise, its ten times harder to decipher. It seems
like anytime anyone writes a tutorial they skip over the most basic
working examples. They are like you, they don't understand the
importance of basic working examples, in context. They don't understand
what it "gets you".
I could make the example this terse
<script src="ajax.js"></script>
<div onclick="doAjax(this)">do ajax</div>
Yes I would love to see a working example of a simple text change even
if it is this terse. I could then look at the code and understand what
it is doing. Out of context, its all greek.
But when you look in the ajax.js file you will see it is relatively
complicated or maybe it isn't. It depends.
At least it would be in context, which means everything to me.