Templates, Hijax and our Presentation
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
At the end of today’s assessment presentation for KXA351 Software Engineering Project A there was a five minute question period where we had to field our assessor’s some answers. Which was kind of interesting for the things that attracted attention.
The first issue that hit my radar was the question as to whether or not our WordPress templates were actually downloaded off the Internet. Seriously. Apparently I make templates that appear a little too professional to be made by me - and I guess in a way that’s a compliment. It won’t be such a compliment if someone accuses me openly of plagiarising my own handiwork but there you go. Interesting feedback.
The same assessor, a post graduate Computer Science student, then went on to talk about our contact form. We used Jeremy Keith’s hijax script to make sure that with JavaScript enabled the user gets the validation and feedback without a page refresh. Without JavaScript enabled then there is a page refresh. While it needed some work on our part in a future release the principle was obvious. But not to the assessor. I was told using Ajax for this is like crushing a Coke can with a car. Seriously.
