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74	74	1. All form controls must be named. This includes text fields, selects and buttons.
75	75	(WebObjects dynamically assigned names are not compatible with ERPrototaculous).
76	76	1. All ajax forms in an ERPrototaculous app need to be instances of ##AjaxUpdaterForm##.
77		-1. Form submit buttons can be the form of a:
	77	+1. Form submit buttons can be a:
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79	79	*
80	80	** Static ##<button>##.
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90	90	== Ajax Page Caching in ERPrototaculous ==
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92		-One notable difference in the ERPrototaculous and Ajax.framework is in the ajax responses.
	92	+One notable difference between the ERPrototaculous and Ajax frameworks is in the way they handle ajax responses.
93	93	In ERPrototaculous, updates and actions break with "The WebObjects Way" by being pseudo-stateless.
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95	95	WebObjects typically vends a fresh response for each and every action. With ajax, this is not necessary.
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97	97	In a typical WebObjects application, when a user clicks on the back button and clicks on a link in on that page in the browser history, WebObjects needs to remember how to handle that action and to return the correct page. This is no longer true for ajax.
98	98	The reason is a user never travels backwards or forwards through the ajax application history.
99		-(i.e there is no forward/back buttons in a 100% ajax app - as there isn't in desktop app).
	99	+(i.e there is no forward/back buttons in a 100% ajax app - as there aren't in desktop apps).
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101	101	So for ajax, the current state of the page fragment component is all that is necessary.
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105	105	Typically, in a WebObjects application, an action would return the contents of the entire page.
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107		-Ajax responses are typically page fragments or part of a page.
	107	+Ajax responses are mostly page fragments or just part of a page.
108	108	So you should make sure the actions in ERPrototaculous (or AjaxUpdaterButton and AjaxRequestButton) return the proper page fragment as opposed to the entire page.
109	109	This breaks with WO-tradition, so this is where you need to be careful.
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121	121	Perhaps the only real similarity to Ajax.framework is the ajax update container.
122	122	**WXGenericContainer** is the ERPrototaculous update container.
123	123	It is similar to an AjaxUpdateContainer when it has the binding ##ajax = true##, otherwise it's pretty much like **WOGenericContainer**.
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	125	+It has been implemented as a utility or //convenience// for Prototype's ##Ajax.Updater##.