And I take what I said back: they are still crucial. Javascript really just opens new doors that, pre-javascript, we had kind of wedged our fingers underneath but hadn't really opened.
For example, just the other day, Casey crashed travelocity when he tried to buy two tickets at once (he and Diana have different flight dates but one day/flight in common) leading to him being unable to buy either ticket. Robby On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > There may be a grain of truth to what he says (that the existence of > javascript in every browser makes continuation-based web servers less > crucial than it was before that) but overall that post just seems > confused. > > Robby > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Paul A. Steckler <st...@stecksoft.com> wrote: >> I came across this post recently: >> >> http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2011/06/continuation-based-web-applications.html >> >> The claim is that AJAX makes server-side continuations (invented at >> PLT) unnecessary. >> >> -- Paul >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
