Ext UpdateManager In Production

[jon.whitcraft]

Guys,

I just want to show off my new application today since it's the first Day of the 2007 IndyCar Series Season.

We have a HTML Timing and Scoring Applicatoin on the web that is based off of Ext's UpdateManager.

http://scoring.indycar.com/2007/

After 11 a.m. EDT time it will start updating while there are cars on track.

Please ask any questions and i'll be more than happy to answer them.

also if you are a race fan of any series check out http://www.indycar.com

[papasi]

very cool ! i like it.

you're only using a grid? where's the sexy border layout and other goodies? :-)

[jon.whitcraft]

very cool ! i like it.

you're only using a grid? where's the sexy border layout and other goodies? :-)

That's not even a grid. It's a custom built table using DomHelper.

I chose to go this way for speed and development time. I was just updating lasts years App which used Prototype so it was a lot easier to just updated that and use DomHelper to do write out a table.

[Animal]

For a quick and dirty upgrade of old table-based data presentation, you can now convert HTML tables straight to Grids.

See /examples/grid/from-markup.html

[jon.whitcraft]

For a quick and dirty upgrade of old table-based data presentation, you can now convert HTML tables straight to Grids.

See /examples/grid/from-markup.html

Yes i know this but the reason i didn't go with a gird object was because of the amout of js and css that would have to be downloaded and I didn't need any of the features the grid offered besides displaying the data. I also wanted this to be lean as possible which i accomplised by using a table.

And besides this is more about the capabilites of the UpdateManager and how it can used.

[jack.slocum]

Jon, that's very cool. We will of course have to have an article about it on the new site. :)