Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Forgive my seeming obsessiveness over this thread, but having ported some rather non-trivial projects to the web over the last few years it's a topic of especially keen interest to me, always eager to find a panacea only to find El Dorado instead. I've been running Rev-based CGIs well for

Re: Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread Andre Garzia
This issue came to light in a thread I came across in the RB forums, eager as I am to learn more about their implementation. This thread notes how Dreamhost -- where I run a great many Rev CGIs, including the blog at LiveCodeJournal.com -- recently nixed an RB app because it was attempting

Re: Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread stephen barncard
And we now have $_SESSION in Livecode Server 5.0 ! Yes! On 23 September 2011 12:34, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: This issue came to light in a thread I came across in the RB forums, eager one of the ways that PHP $_SESSION works, it is simple to implement and the data is not

Re: Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
Richard, Le 23 sept. 2011 à 21:19, Richard Gaskin a écrit : A way to avoid this is to have the app always running, as a sort of daemon process, listening on a specified socket for incoming instructions. The problem with that is that it'll only be allowed on dedicated servers or some

Re: Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
After all the work they have already done on IE 12.5?? Bob On Sep 23, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: (how nice the world would be if IE would simply die the death it deserves after so many years of thumbing its nose at well-published standards).

Re: Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, Actually, I think a decent first step is to just create apps which run on a single page. This removes much if not all the necessary session information and works pretty much like typical AJAX apps do now. Of course, later having the app being able to communicate with LC Server might be

Re: Another web challenge: state

2011-09-23 Thread stephen barncard
I don't use !important but use a lot of inline css for special cases and use css as a sheet or in the header for more general specs (for a one-pager). I pass the state of the app through POST or GET which gets trapped at the beginning and decides which 'page' to display. With the new two pass