On 09/01/2021 19:28, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:36:00 +0000, druck wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2021 15:49, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> Curses is purest C - it sits on top of the termcap functions and adds
>>> capabilities like pop-up subwindows
>>
>> It also uses y,x coordinates which drives me up the wall!
>>
> But so does termcap - no getting away from that if you want simple and
> formatted output direct to the console
>
> -unless you're going to follow TNP's lead and just spit HTML text at Lynx
>   or the web browser of your choice.
>
> - or use PHP to do pretty much the same thing, though this will probably
>    result in a more complex program structure if what it does is
>    non-trivial.
>
>
I think you don't seem to have grasped the issue with server side versus
client side. The problem with server side is that it needs a page reload
to register changes.  If on the other hand you download loads of
javascript then you can use that to make the page dynamic. Even if you
use AJAX that's still some javascript needed to invoke the callback to
the server.

So PHP is not equivalent to JavaScript. PHP is fine at interrogating
databases and doing a lot of server side stuff, but for popup dialogues
and menus that expand you need Javascript.

I once wrote code that downloaded the ENTIRE contents of a company stock
a to allow it to be rapidly searched. It was  not as big as some website
background images....javascript is pretty fast, too.


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