Iconico - Accurate Computer Design and Development Tools. Very Dynamic Web Interfaces. February 09, 2005 One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed.
Any attempt at a dynamic interface involves a full roundtrip of the whole page back to the server for a rebuild--a process which tends to make your web app feel inelegant and unresponsive. In this article, I'll be exploring how this problem can be tackled with the use of JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object. Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project.