http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/firefox-os-tablet-developer-program/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/panasonic-firefox-os-deal/ On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Rick Lyman <lyman.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Henrik and Alex, > > This came in my email this morning: " > http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=502910cc28cb186a9e829f748&id=a8605b778a&e=9d2ada32e2 > " > > It seems to me that the easiest way to overcome server volume(1) > limitations ("http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html";), is by executing a much as > possible on the client. See also: "http://www.generalinterface.org/";. > (Disclosure: my at work architecture is Oracle/Microsoft SQL Server and > .net. Sometimes General Interface is the UI.) > > I will create, and share, some (HTML5 and/or General Interface and/or > TiddlyWiki)+PicoLisp examples; hopefully soon.(2) > > Alex, thanks for pointing me to: "http://getfri.es/"; and " > https://github.com/jaunesarmiento/fries";. Do you use this for testing; > or, for production? > > Thanks, > > -rl > > (1) Not that I have this problem (no volume, ha ha). > (2) A non PicoLisp experiment: http://ricklyman.net/gi4.html > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de>wrote: > >> Hi Rick, >> >> a Happy New Year to you too! And to everybody else, of course! :) >> >> >> And thanks for the feedback and links. >> >> > I have mixed feelings about: "this would break the fundamental rule that >> > the GUI should also work in an environment without JavaScript" >> > >> > It seems contrary to what most companies are pursuing, e.g.: " >> > http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-love-story"; >> >> Sure, that's true. And in fact we are currently also using Phonegap and >> fries.js in the same project. >> >> Still it is an important feature for me if an application works _also_ >> without JavaScript and cookies, running in plain text browsers or >> scrape-script-driven, without any limits to handicapped persons (screen >> readers) or in otherwise restricted environments. Another gain is >> performance because of the lightweight. >> >> >> > Under Windows I have used nodeJS so that localhost can query PicoLisp, >> in a >> > psuedo RESTful manner (i.e., no app session...) >> >> Yes, and you can use PicoLisp in that way also in the standard setup. I >> do this for simple static pages. >> >> But I strongly disagree in non-trivial cases. The session-oriented >> protocol of a PicoLisp app is a must for me. A stateless paradigm like >> REST (keeping the state in the client instead of the server) would IMHO >> be by far inferior for the kind of applications I'm dealing with. As a >> matter of principle some state must be hold in the database on the >> server, and therefore also most decisions concerning the flow, so >> delegating some part of the state to the client gives a very unmodular >> program structure. >> >> ♪♫ Alex >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >> > >
