On 10 Jan 2021 17:23:48 GMT
TimS  wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2021 at 15:35:20 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
> wrote:
>
> >  I'd think sending the whole decision tree up front should work,
> > it worked fine back when I was doing directory trees in early
> > JavaScript on Netscape 2.
>
> Er no. It will get out of hand when you have 30 in the first popup, 40 in
> the second, and 30 again in the third. When I did the front end to an

 That's around 36K elements, perhaps doable but definitely on the
overlarge side (perhaps a well structured megabyte or so of data), another
level would blow it totally.

> assets database at my last job, that's how I started it. I could see it
> wasn't going to scale.

 Sure, but when the tree is small enough it's probably the way to go.

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