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[Karl.Moens at marsh.com]

Dear John,

Thanks for the message. There is indeed some lag, most probably due to the
old slow computers I have running this application on and the fact that in
order to get this open to the world your connection passes through several
intermediary webhops, routers and ISP's so it finally arrives at a
non-privileged port (the usual port 80 is blocked by my ISP).

To have only one book's detail open at a time was a design decision in
order no to clutter/overload the interface, but maybe that is something we
should leave to the users? If they want to overload the screen, hey, it's
their screen isn't it?. Your suggestion to have all info available on a
page by page basis is really something to look into. Unfortunately DHTML is
not one of my strong points, but I will see if I can find some tutorial
somewhere. If you have any suggestions ...

Thanks and best regards,


Karl

John Wang <johncwang at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi Karl,

Congrats, nice website. One comment. For me, there's some latency in
expanding the various records. There is a page request every time a record
is expanded and only one record can be expanded at a time. I'm not sure
where the delay is but one thing you might be interested in would be
sending
all the detailed data in the page and then toggling the visibility of the
detailed information using DHTML. That way expanding the detailed
information wouldn't require a HTTP request and the page would have a much
snappier feel. A bonus is that you would be able to have more than one
record's details viewable at a time.

Cheers,
John


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