> I'd really like to hear more about why you feel using > HTTP/HTML/JavaScript is wrong and can't provide an elegant > solution for certain problems. Can you elaborate?
(I know that this is highly controversial and partly subjective). Because the web has not been originally designed for web applications and the whole history of AJAX is the history of a set of hacks. For years, AJAX has just pursued things such as drag-and-drop, that had been state-of-the-art in the desktop for years. The average usability of an AJAX application is still behind the one of a regular desktop application of a few years ago and I weekly scream, while using a web application made by others, because of a form data loss or such (due to a temporary disconnection or a back button) - or more subtle things such as a total break of the application because it failed to completely download some script. Of course one might argue that it's not AJAX fault, but a fault of most of AJAX developers (but when it comes to Swing and the many things that it did wrong in the past, the blame was with Swing, not developers). On the contrary, my experience with Flex applications (just to cite the most spread technology) is completely different (e.g. Parley's rich client). Unfortunately AJAX and the other stuff is there and won't go away, so we have to deal with it. -- f.g. -- Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
