----- Original Message ----- From: "ajack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: RE: style="document" rulz!
> Stan Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Subject: style="document" rulz! > > And style="rpc" sucks! > > To learn why, read this... > > http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/2002_04/magazine/departments/endtag/ > > The author presupposes that having two applications "work" when they get out > of synch is a good thing. I'd call that "silently failing". Personally, I'll > accept if my HTML is presented quite as the remote author intended, but I'm > not so sure I'd like my banking application (or insert any business use > here) be so "tolerant" to miscommunication. It's hard to see what will work out best over time. The whole 'ignore things we dont understand' policy is sometimes good, sometimes distastrous. > > Also -- having spent the last N hours trying to get "document style" to work > I sure like the simplicity of explicit "tight" RPC. :-) yeah, well, just cos the endpoint implements the same RPC binding as yesterday, doesnt mean they havent broken your app by changing the behaviour...
