Build an entire website as one big flash plugin?
Well, ask Gizmodo about how that sort of thing flies. Or rather, ask their
user numbers. They really got trounced - moved to a single page model (with
a HTML anchor and a bunch of ajax calls actually downloading content and
rendering it - which is the kind of model GWT is good at, though you don't
*HAVE* to do it that way with GWT), and their reader numbers nosedived to
barely a quarter*.
I'm inclined to disregard OP's research until OP explains why 'rails is
currently not compatible with the way the web world works'. I don't
particularly like rails either, but clearly this statement is false.
As a total aside, does anyone know of a template system that is 100% 'valid'
HTML, with 'valid' defined properly (as in, works in all browsers, not
'conforms to spec')? Template languages often involve {} or <%> or other
constructs that don't look anything like HTML, but its theoretically
possible to do something like this:
<t:loop key="itemsInCart">
<table ....>
<t:iteration><tr><td><t:value
key="itemName">Doohickey</t:value></td>....
and so on. Should be even more compatible with dreamweaver and such than
anything else, and has the considerable advantage of rendering just right in
a browser without applying the template. One major issue with it is that I'd
consider 'include / frame' a primitive (i.e. crucial core feature) of any
template system and that's a lot harder to express like that. You really
need some sort of server program, even if only run locally, to apply those.
*) This *MIGHT* be due to the way it was measured, i.e. navigating on the
page doesn't visit new URLs, just changes the URL hash and makes more ajax
requests. There was without a doubt quite a storm from a few dedicated
gizmodo users that they didn't like it at all though. Also I regrettably
can't find a link the chart, so, salt, grain, etc.
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