Moving away from horses and buggies had side effects, too. The truly marvelous thing about humans and humanity is our ability to adapt. In The World is Flat Tom Friedman suggests that getting serious about sustainable energy will improve the U.S. economy and lead to better employment, in much the same way as the space program did in the '60s.
Amen. Web servers are for discrete transactions, not IRC, MUDs or other, keep-alive applications. You want to do a constant-state, client-server thing? Then write a socket app.
The advantage of Ajax (either XML or JSON via XHR) is reducing the size of each transaction, so you can pull in the little pieces of data you need without reloading a whole page. This is NOT the same thing as keep-alive.
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Moving away from horses and buggies had side effects, too. The truly marvelous thing about humans and humanity is our ability to adapt. In The World is Flat Tom Friedman suggests that getting serious about sustainable energy will improve the U.S. economy and lead to better employment, in much the same way as the space program did in the '60s.
Amen. Web servers are for discrete transactions, not IRC, MUDs or other, keep-alive applications. You want to do a constant-state, client-server thing? Then write a socket app.
The advantage of Ajax (either XML or JSON via XHR) is reducing the size of each transaction, so you can pull in the little pieces of data you need without reloading a whole page. This is NOT the same thing as keep-alive.