Re: The "Presentation" Layer

Walden wrote:

Also, something else that's hasn't come up in the discussion of
rich-client frameworks is the loss of the URI/URL concept. Basically,
you lose the ability to bookmark individual data elements.

Very true, and superficially this seems to be a "detail", but in fact it
points to a fundamentally flawed architecture when building "traditional"
client/server apps, but using the browser and html/javascript
as "standard" client technology.

Maybe it's better than what we had with e.g. Visual Basic executables
as clients, especially from a deployment perspective. But there is
nothing really new here, just the same concepts implemented using
the de facto client technology that emerged from the internet (aka
"the web").

Point is, "the web" is a great technology. It's simple, but powerful,
and easy to access (for consumers and producers). Anybody can
use and relate to the simple document-oriented, hyperlink driven
user interface with the "back button" as a prominent feature.
Simply push the "back button" and you always get where you
were if you're lost. Except if you happen to navigate to a document
which does not merely want to be a simple "document" but a full-blown
application with all the features of a GUI which we are accustomed to
having on the desktop.

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:23:14 -0400
From: WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] The "Presentation" Layer

The page comes up and I see a grid, but nothing in the grid. Is this
correct?

Also, something else that's hasn't come up in the discussion of
rich-client frameworks is the loss of the URI/URL concept. Basically,
you lose the ability to bookmark individual data elements. You can fake
some of the uri issue, as google does with playing with the anchor on
the url in gmail as you look at a message, but even they can't do it
with, for example, contacts.

-Walden

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