Re: [9fans] web apps

[Wes Kussmaul <wes@village.com>]

re Christopher Nielsen's observations about AJAX and pushing interface 
stuff into the browser and the like, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> Sun had this figured out in the late 1980s, although they didn't know  
> it at the time: it was called NeWS.  (See, they even had a k33wl  
> graffiti name for it.)

Many had it figured out, but they were the ones who understood what the 
Net was about.

To make the Net greppable by the masses, we needed to apply the page 
turning paradigm, i.e. the Web, i.e. don't be scared of the Internet, 
it's just a bunch of colorful brochures, nothing really interactive (scary)

Now that the masses have got it, have seen javascript etc. in action and 
are no longer (too) frightened by real interactivity, they are looking 
for what we had in the eighties. In this medium the distance between the 
bleeding edge and the masses is twenty "light" years.

So (to mix in one more metaphor) it's a jump ball all over again. The 
question to ask is not how the Web evolves but what follows the Web.

Remember when Gopher was the ultimate Internet domain, Gopher completed 
the Internet, nothing much would happen after Gopher? Here we are again.

This will be fun.

-- 
Wes Kussmaul
CIO
The Village Group
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