On Feb 11, 2008 1:28 AM, Mike Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Genender wrote: > > > > David M. Lloyd wrote: > >>> Yes, this is my thinking as well - the casual user wants a simplified > API, > >> while the advanced user wants a more detailed interface. > >> > > > > Certainly no reason not to offer both capabilities ;-) > > I totally agree. I think we should offer a very simple straight forward > API for the simple cases where the developer only wants asynchronism and > doesn't want to worry about the details. > > At the same time, there are some very complex use cases that we have to > account for that would require a more complex API. > > I keep imaging providing a very flexible API that can accommodate large > uploads/downloads, deal with chunked encoding and COMET technique, > handle pipelining, etc. We could then wrap this flexible API with a > simpler API for dealing with simple requests. >
I like this layered approach. I also like the list of features/usage senarios especially AJAX/COMET centric features. At some point I think we need to have a similar discussion about this and the server. Alex
