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[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="John Wang">
> On 5/28/07, Gavin Henry <ghenry at perl.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Very nice, and definitely a Google App feel to it. I can see dojo etc.
>> there too.
>>
>> It's fast and I like the red Loading... message, just like google.
>
>
> Thanks Gavin. I'm glad you like it and that it's snappy for you. Keeping
> the
> performance acceptable was a big design objective.
>
> Is this a closed app?
>
>
> It is closed for now but that may (or may not) change in the future. There
> are a number of reasons why it may be pre-mature to open. I think it would
> be more beneficial to start opening some of the underlying libraries and
> adding functionality to some existing Perl modules, both of which would be
> of more general use. Also, a number of architecture / design departures
> were
> made from standard practices so some discussion and proving is needed. A
> while back I put together the following slides about what I learned from
> building this project so far. I'd like to see if the ideas in there are
> generally useful and if / how they could work with a higher layer of
> abstraction, e.g. Reaction, which would also provide more broad ranging
> benefits.
>
> http://www.dev411.com/slides/webappdesign.xul
>
> It would be great to hear what people thought about the slides as well.

Nice read. Lot's of thought provoking stuff which I'd love to implement.

Sometimes it's a balance between how much a client is willing to pay
versus how it *should* be done like you describe above and how long you've
got to di it.

Hmmm... Time for a redesign ;-)

>
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> John Wang
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