> To see a little animation where the button updates, or for the page to reload with a flash of white, throw away the comment you were part-way through writing, and then scroll you back to the top of the page
I don't understand how web devs understand the concept of loading and manipulating JSON to dynamically modify the page's HTML, but they don't understand the concept of loading and manipulating HTML to dynamically modify the page's HTML.
It's the same thing, except now you don't have to do a conversion from JSON->HTML.
There's no rule anywhere saying receiving HTML on the client should do a full page reload and throw up the current running javascript.
> XMLHttpRequest
This could've easily been HTMLHttpRequest and it would've been the same API, but probably better. Unfortunately, during that time period Microsoft was obsessed with XML. Like... obsessed obsessed.
I don't understand how web devs understand the concept of loading and manipulating JSON to dynamically modify the page's HTML, but they don't understand the concept of loading and manipulating HTML to dynamically modify the page's HTML.
It's the same thing, except now you don't have to do a conversion from JSON->HTML.
There's no rule anywhere saying receiving HTML on the client should do a full page reload and throw up the current running javascript.
> XMLHttpRequest
This could've easily been HTMLHttpRequest and it would've been the same API, but probably better. Unfortunately, during that time period Microsoft was obsessed with XML. Like... obsessed obsessed.