[Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

[Dave Warnock]

Robert,

I am with you.  Ian mentioned wanting the javascript to be agnostic 
about the back end (ie work for servers in any python framework and even 
ones in other languages).  I think the same should be true for the front 
end. The server should not be producing special output for a javascript 
front end. Instead the server should have a standard RESTful API that 
any front end tool can use.

One thing I have found is that when you have a good RESTful api to the 
server it becomes much much easier to script the server. If the server 
spurts javascript you lose this ability. If the server is RESTful then 
frontends in flash or whatever are just as possible.

Dave