At 04:36 PM 2002-08-16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >I don't believe that it's possible to change this until someone develops >working cross-browser Javascript, since there is no organization of web >archives that's going to be acceptable so long as every time you click on >anything you have to do a round-trip page retrieval from the server. > >The ideal web archive looks and functions exactly like the user's mail >client, but with enhanced search features. This is exactly why Gmane is >so cool, because that's close to what it is.
Now, let's think about this. It is impossible to do a good archive on the web because of round trip time, but the fact that gmane is at the other end of a Round Trip is not a problem? I don' get it, Lucy. Something is at work here other than round trip time. >(Which indicates to me that the real future of archiving of mailing lists >is in read-only IMAP folders.) Which are also on the other end of a round trip interaction with a server. I'm willing to agree that it will be difficult or impossible to do a reasonable web archive, but I think that it is because the web model sort of sucks because it does not have a rich enough set of search functions...then again, why is that not part of the world of CGI? Essentially, the assertion is that an imap client or a nntp client can search a bunch of files and return the right ones in a short enough time (including the milliseconds for the server RTT) and that is acceptable, but you can't plug that same code into a web server and have it return the files? I really do not think that server RTT has anything to do with it. -- "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!" -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Nick Simicich - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
