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Apr
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Before you look at the code and laugh at me, I would like to point out that I developed it before people were talking about AJAX. All I had to work with was Photoshop (for the buttons. I’m still kind of amazed I bothered to make buttons…) and iframes. Those were darker days then. Javascript powers most of the display logic, it queries the server and loads the data into the iframe, the contents of the iframe include Javascript code that then updates the whole system’s state. A poor-man’s AJAX. Deeper down, there is some PHP glue code that loads the right flash card file, parses it and sends individual cards back to the browser.

This was certainly much cooler than studying.