> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of ropers > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:44 PM > To: L. V. Lammert > Cc: Mark Bucciarelli; David Terrell; Damien Miller; Sam > Fourman Jr.; OpenBSD > Subject: Re: [OT] OpenBSD AJAX > > On 01/11/06, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > > > > > Do you have a recommendation for a client-side Ajax lib > to use with > > > C? > > > > > Huh? How can you run C code in a browser? > > > > Lee > > The short answer: You don't. > > The long answer: > Ok, so here goes -- for the benefit of the archives: > Read http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/ . > Note how XMLHttpRequest is key here. > It links the client side (where we have HTML/CSS/ECMAscript > and possibly other clientside stuff) with whatever code is > running on the server. > I'm using the word "link" very loosely here: XMLHttpRequest > can make the browser request data without page reloads. That > data doesn't really have to be in XML format (cf. JSON). > The code on the server (that talks to XMLHttpRequest) could > effectively be just about anything: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, > Java/JSP, even C. > > /* begin increasingly off-topic techno-giddy mullarkey */ > > And while I don't know that it has been done, in theory at > least, there's nothing to stop you from writing the server > side logic in pure assembly language. > Oh, don't just write it in assembly language. Write it in > assembly language by hand editing in a hex editing > environment inside vi (:%!xxd / :%!xxd -r) via a 2400 baud > teletype using this programming technique when writing your > loops: http://tinyurl.com/y65oeu > > PS: I once read that Google allegedly, allegedly generated > their fancy-schmancy AJAXian Javascript code by first writing > Java code and then using some kind of cross-converter to turn > the Java code into JavaScript code. > Either the person who wrote that was seriously confused and > STILL didn't get that Java and JS are completely different > animals, or Google is doing something that I can only marvel > and awe at. > > PPS: Someplace else I read that reportedly, reportedly most > people who code for a living do so in Java. No idea if that's > true, though if it is, it could explain what Google is > reportedly doing... > >
That's exactly what they do: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
