On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote:
> > This may be heresy on this list, but I'll ask it anyway. A general > point for discussion which I'm raising because the Lift Book mentions > AJAX early on in the PocketChange app. > > How important is AJAX and all the associated Web 2.0 stuff to you and > to your projects? I'm quite happy without Javascript and AJAX. More > often than not they're doing the kind of thing you could just as > easily do with traditional technologies. Save for one web-app (Google > Mail), I don't think a single site I use has been improved for it. > Particular examples are Slashdot and Facebook. Give me good old HTML > any day. > > I've got a few projects in the pipeline and I intend to use Lift for > all of them, it looks excellent and from the source I've read very > nicely engineered. But I will expressly avoid using anything other > than old-fashioned HTML as much as I can, largely because I'm > targetting browsers of unknown vintage in less economically developed > countries and I'd like to be able to use my own site without cookies > or javascript if I want to. > > Have I missed the point of Lift entirely? I think that a key take-away from Lift is the abstraction of the HTTP request/response cycle so that higher level abstractions can happen... basically, freeing the developer to focus on the business task at hand rather than the plumbing of HTTP. This requires state which means cookies. It does not require Ajax. > Am I in a small minority? Am > I crazy? > > Joe > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
