In our Seam-based application, each page has a help icon that the user can click when help text for the page is needed. A click on the help icon opens up a helpPanel showing the text. The problem with our current solution is that the help text is transferred to the user's browser as a part of the page html, whether the user may need that help or not. I would prefer the help text to be retrieved by a separate request, when the user clicks the icon. Would that require much to be changed in our current solution?
Today each <page>.xhtml has a ui:include like this:
<ui:include src="help.xhtml">
<ui:param name="header" value="#{header text}" />
<ui:param name="helptext" value="#{some long text}" />
</ui:include>
And the help.xhtml has an anchor like this:
<a href="#" onclick="#{rich:component('helpPanel')}.show()">...</a>
... and then a rich:modalPanel.
/Jon
