Oops.. OpenLaszlo
I was surfering web to find a good open source project for build rich UI web application. So few attempts with MSN live search and I am on OpenLsszlo page. Wow, they promise golden mointains, and supporting everything which can move, but stop.. Oops JavaScript error almost on first page. Should I go further?
Big companies are conservators?
Or simple stupid?
Recently I talked with a young architect of some big reputable company. We discussed how to improve overall performance of web applications. He was really concentrated on reducing amount of data sent to server from a browser. When I suggested him using Webservices instead of a form submission, he became almost mad. "What? Are you going to give such overhead as compose XML, sent huge amount of data and then parse them on server side?" - exclaimed he. "Why not? Compose XML is a task of a browser so there is no load for your server. Processing request and forming small XML response is much cheaper than generate entire web page again to acknowledge of a form submission" - answered I. "Plus, you get much slicker UI without a lot of flickering and improve overall user experience" - me continued. It doesn't look like he understood. AJAX is nothing more is a buzz word for many many architects and designers especially working for big companies.