Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-11-13 Thread Célio
It seems that Google is embracing the 'revolution': http://dev.chromium.org/spdy SPDY solves the protocol problem. Soon we will see a replacement coming for HTML/JavaScript. Cheers! On 23 set, 10:02, Célio ccid...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 set, 01:24, lusus l...@fishbytedesign.com wrote:

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-25 Thread lusus
Well it looks like this discussion is fizzling out, but just in case there are still people actually view this, I wanted to add some other related thoughts. I started doing some research into this idea, and found some interesting things. Like for one, that there are people much larger than me

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-24 Thread Yanick
On Sep 23, 12:18 pm, Thomas Broyer t.bro...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 sep, 16:54, lusus l...@fishbytedesign.com wrote: I think I can safely say that push is NOT evil. Not in itself. I must admit I agree (Yanick: how do you think GMail, (Wave), Facebook and the like do? oh, sure, that's not

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-24 Thread lusus
I believe it is. In my understanding, having a browser listen on a specific port and having it wait for any incoming connection from anyone exposes it to attacks. Hi Yanick, I think you are misunderstanding push communication. When you use a chat program (outside of the web), push is being

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-24 Thread lusus
It would be a titanic effort to rebuild so many standars. Would it? It been done many times before. And in the long run, I'm really only talking about (relatively) minor changes to the existing protocols. And then the browser sitting on top would just need to address security, and understand

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread Thomas Broyer
On 23 sep, 06:24, lusus l...@fishbytedesign.com wrote: First I would like to point out a few important facts: 1) I think that GWT is a fantastic idea, and that the developers deserve awards and ice cream and funny hats and should be carried through the streets. 2) I am just throwing this

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
On Sep 23, 1:00 am, Daniel Jue teamp...@gmail.com wrote: You've essentially described the JVM which is on some 4 billion machines.  Have you programmed with Swing or Applets? The idea that I am suggesting is, yes, essentially like the JVM. But in my world, it would be a JVM running on a

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
On Sep 23, 1:25 am, DuoCentillion duocentill...@gmail.com wrote: I think currently the browser is more general, more secure, and more streamlined a model for broadcasting and communication than anything else yet proposed.  We dont rely exclusively on java programs or applets to do

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
Well, have a look at Java Web Start, .NET ClickOnce or Adobe AIR install badge. Java Web Start is in the right direction, but is still limited pull communication, unless you use sockets on other ports, which may or may not be available. I am starting to realize that my want for push is

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread Yanick
Hi lusus, I'm not a a guru in all web technologies, but I think knowing enough to comment on this. On Sep 23, 12:24 am, lusus l...@fishbytedesign.com wrote: First I would like to point out a few important facts: 1) I think that GWT is a fantastic idea, and that the developers deserve awards

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread Trevis
Would it be that hard to get the general public to accept a new internet that involves application browsers? I think that you dramatically underestimate people’s reluctance to install something new. It took a long time for the web and its protocols to reach the levels of saturation that

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
What do you mean by major programming languages? Javascript is a major programming language. (more on this below) I understand, however, that HTTP was originally created to display content (documents) in standardized way, as BBS were insufficient, and there was a need to, well, please the

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
 Would it be that hard to get the general public to accept a new  internet that involves application browsers? I think that you dramatically underestimate people’s reluctance to install something new.  It took a long time for the web and its protocols to reach the levels of saturation

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread Célio
On 23 set, 01:24, lusus l...@fishbytedesign.com wrote: Isn't it time that we finally quit trying to warp the WWW into what we really want it to be, and come up with a new protocol all together? Mr. Lusus, let me shake your hand, that's exactly as my own feeling is about the web today. We have

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
Mr. Lusus, let me shake your hand, that's exactly as my own feeling is about the web today. We have tried to push the actual 'web' beyond its capabilities. Thank You Sir. Consider my hand shook. If only we could get others to understand? Many of the replies (as expected) have focused on the

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-23 Thread lusus
Let me summarize: what you want is... Java applets, Silverlight, Flash/ Flex, with a way to do server push. Well, you already have all this: Silverlight can use sockets [1], as well as Flash/Flex [2] (I don't know for Java/JavaFX, but as far as I'm concerned java on the web is dead for a

Re: Why Not Bypass The Middle Man

2009-09-22 Thread DuoCentillion
I think currently the browser is more general, more secure, and more streamlined a model for broadcasting and communication than anything else yet proposed. We dont rely exclusively on java programs or applets to do everything because it is not general and is not secure and certainly came after