Scatter - Ajax without coding, ideal for HTML prototyping

jaredstenquist · on Nov 30, 2010

I downloading the js file, followed the instructions and it didn't work

A suggestion - when you post code, it's nice to have: 1) a working demo page 2) the example source code not in an image so it has to be re-typed to try

primigenus · on Nov 30, 2010

It would be hard to just copy/paste the example as it uses Quplo's proprietary syntax (flow, a prototyping markup language). You'd have to load it in quplo for it to work, and we didn't want to suggest that you needed a quplo account just to check out Scatter.

jaredstenquist · on Nov 30, 2010

I see. I didn't look through the JS, nor have I used Quplo so I just figured i'd have to trade correct syntax for ease of prototyping using this.

I asked myself a couple of times why you'd wrap <html> in <page> lol.

wccrawford · on Nov 30, 2010

He complains about Ajax being a horrible term when it could mean something so simple, and then names his project 'Scatter'? Pot, meet kettle.

gojomo · on Nov 30, 2010

Probably the 'X' bothers him; it's always seemed silly to me to emphasize 'XML' when the most interesting uses of AJAX skip XML for raw HTML and JS, and the APIs for doing background requests only mention XML as a historic accident (like the misspelling of 'referrer' in HTTP).

It's just a matter of taste, but I prefer a vaguely evocative name like 'Scatter' to a faux-precise-acronym like 'AJAX'.

ez77 · on Nov 30, 2010

No comments about licensing on the blog post or in the source code. (http://quplo.com/scatter is not responding.)

jaredstenquist · on Nov 30, 2010

license information is on the download page http://code.google.com/p/scatterjs/

but agreed, it should be in the js file itself

ez77 · on Nov 30, 2010

My bad. Thank you.

Edit: For the record, the license is MIT.