Moonlighting Linux: the future of rich web apps
As we know, static HTML web sites are passé. Yet, Java applets never turned out to be the killer online application platform they possibly could have been. The modern introduction of Ajax has undoubtedly improved the web experience but it’s not a panacea. Here’s how to get started using the Moonlight development technology from the Mono Project.
Ajax is a combination of JavaScript and XML and has been revolutionary. It makes web applications much more responsive. It’s brought about a more desktop-like experience to the web. This highlights the divide between the two major application models: web apps are ubiquitous; they place few barriers on the user except to have a web browser and Internet connection. However, desktop apps can have richer functionality but have far more dependencies.
Early web applications involved round-robin trips back to the web server. A page would be delivered to the user, they filled in forms or selected options and then the browser sent this back to the web server for processing. Prior to client-side scripting technologies like JavaScript all form processing had to be on the server which often meant a couple of seconds waiting just to be told you’d entered invalid data and had to do it again.
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