Ah, Nic has been quiet for a while, it took a favorite issue wake him
up :-).
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >>> Shital Kanitkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10-Oct-00 5:08:20 PM >>>
[ ... ]
> >So why would anyone want to go in for this kind of an
> >architecture, other than for pure academic purposes?
>
> IMHO mostly coz people are not thinking about how to avoid using
> them.
>
> A lot of people seem to have an inability to deal with the
> restrictions placed by the web... if you work within those
> restrictions life gets much easier. It seems that most people can't
> move beyond the client-server paradigm.
>
> The distributed web architecture *is* better. It's faster, more
> flexible (accepting the obvious UI restraints) and easier to build.
>
> People using Swing (and applets generally) are just making their
> lives difficult.
But what about when the "obvious UI restraints" are too much? There
are times when something beyond what basic HTML is useful and even
necessary. Does that mean that when that's the case that you
can't/shouldn't use servlets/HTTP?
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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