Fine-uploader with standard form - fine-uploader

Is there somewhere or does someone know how to use fine-uploader with a basic form, no ajax? I've attempted to use the standard method with Mura CMS and 12 hours later Mura's internal permissions have beaten me.

This is from the perspective of a Fine Uploader developer, not a user or developer of Mura CMS (which I have no experience with):
Fine Uploader does not have a way -- currently -- to turn AJAX requests off and use a form submit manually. All of this is done internally as Fine Uploader progressively enhances itself as browser features are supported.
If your framework does not allow AJAX requests to be made to it one workaround would be to setup a separate server on another domain just to handle uploads. You would have to enable CORs and setup access-control rules, but this would then allow you to make AJAX requests to upload.
The real question is why does your CMS not allow AJAX and how because that might give clues as to another workaround.

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Openerp or odoo use ajax to send POST and GET data ? without refreshing

I want to know the technology used in ODOO(Openerp) to send POST and GET data without refreshing the page: because I don't see any AJAX code !!
Odoo is using http POST/GET requests to update the user interface. A combination of javascript making requests on the page and controllers responding. Odoo also uses longpolling to allow the server to provide updates to the client.
Take a look at the web addon
Of particular note would be
addons/web/controllers/main.py
and
addons/web/static/src/js
The js directory mentioned above (i am sorry there is a lot there). Defines how the standard ui widgets work (and much more). Most of the files are reasonably named to give you an indication of what is going on in each file.
You will also want to look at the framework directory within the above noted directory.
There you will find ajax.js which (you guessed it!) is the Odoo ajax module.
NOTE: The above directories are similar in Odoo8 however Odoo9 and Odoo10 have the above structure. Odoo8 does not have an ajax.js (to my knowledge) .

100% Ajax Websites

I have been looking at Hulu's new website and I am very impressed from a developer's standpoint (as well as a designer's).
I have found that, unless you switch between http/https, you are served content entirely from json requests. That is a HUGE feat to have this level of ajax while maintaining browse back button support as well as allowing each url to be visited directly.
I want to create a website like this as a learning experience. Is there any type of framework out there that can give me this kind of support?
I was thinking I could...
leverage jQuery
use clientside MVVM frameworks like KnockoutJS?
use ASP.NET MVC content negotiation to serve html or json determined by an accept header.
using the same codebase.
use the same template for client side and server side rendering
provide ways to update pagetitle/meta tags/etc.
Ajax forms/widgets/etc would still be used, by I am thinking about page level ajax using json and client side templates.
What do you think? Any frameworks out there? Any patterns I could follow?
It is always best to first build a website without AJAX support, then add AJAX on top of that. Doing this means that:
users without javascript can already access your website
users can already visit any URL directly.
Adding AJAX support can be accomplished by various javascript libraries. So that you can render json content, you will want to look at javascript templating. You will want to use javascript templating even on your server side for when you add AJAX support (file extension .ejs). This will probably require some appropriate libraries to run javascript on the server.
When you add AJAX support, you will want to use the "History.js" library for browser back/forward/history support.
Make no mistake. This is a HUGE project (unless your website only has a few pages). So it is going to take a LONG time to add all the AJAX support to the best possible standard.
to answer your bullet point about using the same template server side as well as client side: check outdust. It was originally developed by akdubya, but has since been adopted and enhanced by linkedin. They use it to render templates on their mobile app client side. Personally I've used it on the server side and it works great.

How to improve SEO while using MVC with AJAX

I am developing a site using asp.net MVC. I have used AJAX for paging,sorting dropdown fillup,showing different content on link click etc. I came to know that AJAX call is always against SEO and SEO is most important for my site.
Please suggest me ways to improve SEO of my site without removing AJAX.
You should have been using progressive enhancement from the start. Your site should work without JavaScript/Ajax being enabled. This way all users, including search engines, can get to your content. Then you should enhance your users' experience by adding JavaScript and Ajax to provide a better experience.
At this point you don't have a lot of options. You'll need to go back and make that content available without JavaScript. You can also use Google's crawlable Ajax standard, too, but that only works for Google and for a slightly more amount of work you can make every search engine, and every user, able to reach your content by not making JavaScript required to use your website.

How do we do AJAX programming

I have no idea about AJAX programming features. I just know that it is Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
Please help me in knowing about this language.
I have gone through many AJAX tutorials. But none of the programs are running. Why I don't know.
Do we save the file with .HTML extension?
Read:
AJAX Tutorial by W3Schools.
AJAX Programming by Google Code University
To start coding you can get the Ajax Control Toolkit by Microsoft. You should read Ajax Control Toolkit Tutorials to get a grasp of it.
You can use the free Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition as your IDE.
Aside from the correct responses that the others gave you, judging from your question I think you first need to learn about client-side and server-side code.
Do we save the file with .HTML extension?
Yes and no. You will have an HTML frontend, that for instance contains a button. This will be interpreted from the client's (=user) browser. In fact it may be rendered differently depending on the browser/OS/etc.
Now, you attach some Javascript code to this button. This also runs on the client's browser, and creates a XMLHttpRequest object, either directly or through the use of a library (JQuery & Co.). Note that a library is not necessary to do an AJAX request. It will make your life easier if you do a lot of AJAX calls, but it is not essential.
And here's where the magic happens: the XMLHttpRequest object will call asynchronously (i.e.: without reloading the page) a server-side page. This may be a PHP, ASP, Perl etc etc file that does something on the server, for instance queries a database. This part of the operation is absolutely independent from the client. The user can close the browser before the server-side code finishes to load and the server will not know about it.
Once the server-side code has finished executing it returns to the client with some response data (e.g. a piece of XML, JSON, HTML or whatever you like). Finally the client executes (or not) some other Javascript code in response to this, for example to write on the screen, again with no reloading of the page, something based on what the server has returned.
Maybe I can help you understand AJAX by clarifying the concepts a bit.
Please help me in knowing about this language.
AJAX is not a language, it is a way of using existing techniques to improve the user experience of a web site. The language is Javascript in the browser but you can use any server side technique that you feel comfortable with (ASP.NET, Java, PHP, Ruby etc.)
Do we save the file with .HTML extension?
Well, that is not really the point. What you have to grasp here is that there is a server and a browser that interact with each other. Yes, you can use static HTML files for your pages (and save them as .html files), but you'll need a server to respond to the requests of the browser. This may be why your sample code is not working; you need to set up a server that works with your pages.
The whole idea behind AJAX is to improve the user experience by not reloading the entire page when a user interacts with it. You request the data you need and update the page by using Javascript to update the HTML. This is called an out-of-band or asynchronous request.
I just know that it is Asynchronous Javascript and XML.
That is what the acronym stands for but it doesn't quite cover what the technique is for, nor is it accurate any more. In the beginning XML was used to transfer data from the server to the client. People found that XML is not really that easy to work with in Javascript so now it's more common to use JSON. JSON is a snippet of javascript that can be evaluated in the browser. The snippet creates javascript object(s) that represent the data.
If you use a Javascript library, like others have suggested here, you won't have to worry about many of the details though.
Before you get into AJAX you should make sure that you understand:
HTML and CSS
Javascript
how to modify HTML with Javascript
how a browser requests information from a server
how to handle requests on the server
If you are not comfortable with all of these concepts, stick with 'regular' web pages and try to improve your knowledge step by step.
Once you get the basic knowledge from W3school, I suggest you use a framework. Usually developers do not use XMLHttpRequest at all. Instead, javascript frameworks like ExtJS, jQuery and other frameworks make your work simple. I suggest you learn bit of javascript as well. check out jQuery.
Just to add that AJAX is rarely used in its pure form with XMLHttpRequest. You will often use it as a part of AJAX UI libraries which make your life easier. If you are from the Java world - such an AJAX library is Richfaces.
Instead of worrying about how to do AJAX, use something that allows you to forget about it. Frameworks like NOLOH do AJAX (and Comet) for you automatically without you having to do a thing. Just concentrate on your application, and business logic and it does the rest.
Really, everything is done via AJAX if available, automatically. No work on your part. If you're don't want to spend much time researching it, check out this short video that was demonstrated at Confoo PHP Conference this past March http://www.youtube.com/phpframework#p/u/11/cdD9hSuq7aw.
For all those worried about, well, if it's all AJAX, what about search engines? No need to worry, http://dev.noloh.com/#/articles/Search-Engine-Friendly/.
So instead of having to worry about all these different technologies, or the client-server relationship, you can sit down, code and have your website/WebApp working in no time.
You can read about NOLOH is this month's cover story of php|architect magazine, http://www.phparch.com/magazine/2010/may/.
Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH.
It is easy one. Ajax getting data from server side by client side execution. We have to do use XMLHttpRequest to get the result.

Cross site scripting(XSS)

I am loading content from another page and depending on the content of page, changing content of my page and this is giving me cross site scripting issues.
When i use iframe, since the content is from other domain, content of iframe becomes inaccessible.
When i use ajax and try to inject the content as plain html code, XmlHttpRequest object throws permission denied exception due to cross site scripting.
When i use JSONP, such as getJSON in JQuery, it only supports GET protocol and it is not adequate for further processing.
I wonder what other options i can try. Heard that DOJO, GWT,Adobe Air do some XSS, but dont know which one is the best.
Thanks,
Ebe.
Without JSON-P, your only option is to run a proxy script on your own server that fetches the content from the external site and pipes it back to the browser.
The browser fetches the content from the script on your server, hence no cross-domain issues, but the script on your server dynamically fetches it from the external site.
There's an example of such a script in PHP here: http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet494.html (NB. I haven't personally used it).
If you have control over both domains, take a look at EasyXDM. It's a library which wraps cross-browser quirks and provides an easy-to-use API for communicating in client script between different domains using the best available mechanism for that browser (e.g. postMessage if available, other mechanisms if not).
Caveat: you need to have control over both domains in order to make it work (where "control" means you can place static files on both of them). But you don't need any server-side code changes.
To add to what RichieHindle says, there are some good script (Python+Cron) that you can plonk on your server and it will check for changes to a POST/GET location and cache the changes on your server.
Either set your triggers low (once every 10 mins/ 1 per day) or you might get blacklisted from the target.
This way, a local cache won't incur the HTTP overhead on every AJAX call from the client.

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