On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
i've been reading about AJAX and the like, and some of the architectural ideas seem good, e.g., pushing interface stuff into the browser and updating requests for data asynchronously. makes sense and makes for snappier web apps.
Sun had this figured out in the late 1980s, although they didn't know it at the time: it was called NeWS. (See, they even had a k33wl graffiti name for it.)
--lyndon
