Why do people think that AJAX apps are necessarly remote ?
A is asynchronous X stems from the XMLHttpRequest Neither of which make sense when talking about purely local apps. Unless of course Ajax is used in the inflationary sense for everthing that's client-side Javascript. Which makes it a synonym for DHTML (D for dynamic), which has been around for much much longer, and has been more or less universally hated (well, back then browsers were buggier, connections slower, cpus weaker etc.) and looked down upon by many people.
but we're talking GUI toolkit here
Not really, but who can blame you, when fashion words and hype make it very hard to use specific words for specific concepts. (Reminiscient of famous research paper titles like "my cat is object oriented") -- Sencer _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community