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- From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- To: Sean McGrath <digitome@iol.ie>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:29:42 -0600
Sean McGrath wrote:
>
> Amen. I see an increasing number of innovative Web apps in which
> the browser is the "viewer" as distinct from the app that is
> doing the real work.
>
> I think it is interesting to ponder why this is so.
> My (controversial of course) view on this
> is that the Web client-side programming model of an
> embedded, sand-boxed, buggy,
> antithesis-of-a-text-processing-language has finally
> run its course.
Architecturally, it doesn't always make sense to make HTML the
outer language layer or have a web browser be the framework.
http and other transports should be just services available to
any app. The document centric/flow object model isn't the
only way to do this. Sometimes it makes sense; in other
cases, it is just baggage.
len
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