Javascript and Coldfusion

[ice78991]

As CF developers will know, Coldfusion tables generally contain a lot of looping code as you cycle through query objects.I am considering using <cfoutput query =.... loops to fill javascript arrays and then recreate the loops to output the tables with javascript using document.write(..). This way I hope to shift some of the burden of displaying these tables from the server to the client and I will also reduce the file size

Has anybody attempted this and is there much performance gain to speak of? I assume that coldfusion will have to output and do less with this method. However document.write(...) can make code less neat and harder to maintain? All comments appreciated !

 

[trollacious]

How are you going to get the table data from the server to the client side? Javascript (unless it's JScript ASP or AJAX) doesn't have any contact with the server. Even with AJAX, you're going to have to have some kind of server-side scripting to read the data and produce it for Javascript to use. How would writing the data into Javascript to run to create dynamic client-side pages be faster than just creating them directly on the server?

Lee