Scatter - Ajax without coding, ideal for HTML prototyping

blog.quplo.com

39 points·mrtnkl··8 comments

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

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.

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.

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

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'.

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