- From: Jose Gregorio Dinuncio Flores <jdinunci@uc.edu.ve>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:45:28 -0400
El mar, 08-06-2004 a las 15:35, Preston St. Pierre escribi?: > [...]If we do everything client side, we need the support of people. > People, essentially, are idiots. They do what Microsoft tells them > (for the most part, of course). If Microsoft has goals that lie in > other directions, it would be easy for them to break compatibility. > This standards group is partially here to block the proprietary MS > stuff from becoming a standard. When 90% of the population is governed > by one body, and that body is against what we are doing, suddenly we > fail. Yes, everyone has proposed work-arounds. But do we really want > to be designing standards based on work-arounds? If so, it will > eventually be "Well we'd like to do it this way, but it would be 10x > easier to implement on IE if we did it this other way, so we'll do > that." The first way may have been much better, but client side and IE crushes it. I totally agree. Let's do something simple and usefull, something that can get a good and early implementation. Today, there is no standand to compete with: there is a problem in wait of a solution. The first one to get in will get the market. So, there is a chance to work in SPECs that make our work easier. The operational word is "early". In my ideal enviroment, the browser downloads a XML doc with a full description of the UI of the app (is it XForms good enougth for a modern, generic desktop interface?), it can handle the basic interaction with the user (tooltips, status bar, etc.), and the real work is done in the server (XMLRPC, SOAP). -- Jose Gregorio Dinuncio Flores <jdinunci at uc.edu.ve> Universidad de Carabobo
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