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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] web apps
Date: Sun,  6 Nov 2005 12:10:19 -0800
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On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Christopher Nielsen wrote:

> i've been reading about AJAX and the like, and some of the
> architectural ideas seem good, e.g., pushing interface stuff
> into the browser and updating requests for data asynchronously.
> makes sense and makes for snappier web apps.

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.)

--lyndon