AM I THE ONLY ONE?

Posted Jul 2, 2013 5:51 UTC (Tue) by dark (guest, #8483)
In reply to: AM I THE ONLY ONE? by BrucePerens
Parent article: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

I think JS is just the latest link in a long chain. Every time we standardize worldwide, it creates a new platform and we reinvent everything on top of that. We layered all networking (even local networking) over IP, we layered all protocols (even stateless ones) over TCP, we layered all protocols again over HTTP, now we're doing it with JSON.

In the same time frame we've created the "standard app suite" again and again, with more layers under it every time. Running the apps in a web browser is just another link in that chain. And now these chains are merging. Perhaps now, finally, something different will happen :)

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AM I THE ONLY ONE?

Posted Jul 2, 2013 21:25 UTC (Tue) by alankila (guest, #47141) [Link] (2 responses)

Just today I wrote a boneheaded client for WS-ReliableMessaging, which appears to layer something like TCP on top of XML on top of SOAP on top of HTTP on top of TCP on top of IP on top of whatever.

AM I THE ONLY ONE?

Posted Jul 2, 2013 21:26 UTC (Tue) by alankila (guest, #47141) [Link] (1 responses)

Criminy, SOAP and XML should be swapped in that order.

AM I THE ONLY ONE?

Posted Jul 3, 2013 2:44 UTC (Wed) by bbaetz (subscriber, #42501) [Link]

> Criminy, SOAP and XML should be swapped in that order.

I'm not sure that that clarification improves the situation...