One of the reasons I still have not learned any AJAX type stuff is that
I consider javascript a crummy language and I am annoyed that it has
become the standard for running in browsers. Rather than an actual
language it would have been nicer if they had just included a generic VM
(a la jvm) which we could target our perl/python/Jython/php/whatever
code to and write code in the language of our preference. But since that
is not the case we are stuck with javascript.
I just ran across this paper which has a very interesting idea: Why not
compile our preferred language (python) into javascript for execution on
the client? Then we only have to deal with one language and can
integrate it cleanly into the class libraries of our web application
programming platform (zope/plone).
If this were integrated with TAL or METAL such that certain XML tags
call python functions which are rendered into javascript for the client
to execute in the page instead of HTML to render in the page it could
all integrate fairly seamlessly and give our favorite web application
server and CMS a big boost in AJAX capabilities:
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/papers/links-icfp06/links-icfp06.pdf
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Tracy R Reed
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