Comments on: Our New Online Service http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2006/06/14/our-new-online-service/ Behind the Scenes at Ilium Software Sat, 25 May 2013 16:45:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kevin White http://blog.iliumsoft.com/2006/06/14/our-new-online-service/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Kevin White Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:25:13 +0000 http://blog.iliumsoft.com/?p=15#comment-6 Another (geeky) thing about PassBuilder is that the JavaScript version works using AJAX technologies. In other words, when you push the generate button, your screen doesn’t refresh as it contacts our server. Instead, it contacts our server and runs the (significantly larger) password generator, which then sends back the password and the JavaScript displays it for you without having to get a new webpage.

Of course, we could have put the entire password generator code in the JavaScript but then:

a) it would make the page load time a lot higher, which would be unfortunate for PDA users who have javascript-capable browsers such as Opera and metered internet access

and b) someone could just download it and set it up somewhere else less reputable.

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