'Seaside' is a Smalltalk framework for what might be called "Modal Web Development" or "Synchronous Web Programming", or even "Continuation Based Web Apps".
Continuation Based Frameworks seem to be getting quite some attention lately. For example in the Lisp world. Check out Bill Clementson's blog for some excellent posts.
http://home.comcast.net/~bc19191/blog/041229.html
And Seaside looks indeed very nice. Would be good to see it generate some new interests in Smalltalk/Squeak.
I googled for the python spin-off but didn't find one.
Does Python really need yet another framework? Apart from the intellectual excersise, wouldn't it be nice if Python would get a framework "for the rest of us" (meaning: mere mortals) which would focus upon getting work done in a simple manner instead of creating yet another, new, hip, exciting, way of creating dynamic websites? If Python cannot deliver a PHP clone, at least you would expect a Rails lookalike. And though part of the Rails stack may be surpassed easily by Python equivalents, no Python alternative offers (imho of course) the same level of simplicity, elegance and pragmatism (!!) as Rails does.
Regards,
Iwan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
