On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Vitaliy wrote: > http://www.findchips.com/ > > Our web developer told me that the page gets created, and sent back to the > browser all at once. According to him, they are "faking it" -- making it > *look* like the results are returned in real-time. > > It seems to me that it should be possible for the server to: > > 1. Get results from Digikey. > 2. Serve that portion of the page. > 3. Get results from Mouser. > 4. Serve that portion of the page. > > Can the web experts on this list either confirm, or deny this possibility? > If it can be done, what are some of the possible ways of accomplishing it? > This is not just a hypothetical question, we're working on a similar > project. > > Vitaliy They just fetch the data from each location with AJAX technology. That is a javascript fetch XML information from a server and display it when it gets available. Pretty standard today. Cheers /Ake -- --- Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer) D of Scandinavia, Brattbergavagen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden Phone: (46) 73 0533 146 Company home: http://www.dofscandinavia.com Personal homepage: http://www.dofscandinavia.com/akhe Automated home: http://www.vscp.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist