Nic,
Can you elaborate on this distributed web architecture, and where can I read
more about it?
-Shital
----- Original Message -----
From: Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: Practical Application of Applet-Servlet Communication
> >>> "Rob Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10-Oct-00 11:14:25 PM
> >>>
>
> >Being an applet author I just have to buy in here:
>
> Yes - I thought that would provoke someone /8-)
>
>
> >> The distributed web architecture *is* better. It's faster, more
> >> flexible (accepting the obvious UI restraints) and easier to
> build.
>
> >The obvious UI restraints make some HTML based apps really
> >painful. Take the JRun administrator, in 2.3 it was an applet, in
> 3.0 its
> >all HTML based. I my opinion a big step backwards, from a UI point
> >of view. Or Microsoft's Developer Network. It had an applet that
> >showed a tree view of the documentation, now it's HTML based. So
> >when you select a topic and then return to the tree you have lost
> your
> >place in the tree, and are back at the top, whereas the applet
> >remembered your place. Is this an advance?
>
> Applets can be usefull to develop UI components for HTML pages which
> you then use JS to script. But that kind of architecture is not really
> what's being talked about.
>
> I wouldn't advocate use of any "live" link between an applet and the
> server coz that's reliant on client-server thought.
>
> I hope that browsers will soon support more sophisticated UI (I'm
> working on something that will do that... wanna help?).
>
>
> Nic
>
>
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