[Web-SIG] Webapplication and Javascript

[Rene Dudfield]

Hey,

I have done something similar, but with xmlrpc ( using the jsolait
library ) instead of jsonrpc.

It is a Melbourne arts, music, and creative comunity site
http://www.pretendpaper.com/

The current site is an old version of the code, and I have since done
a lot to improve it.  Refactoring, and cleaning up has been a big part
of it, as the current live site was more a proof of concept to try
different approaches.

I like the approach because it makes it easy to write scripts that
interact with the website remotely.  However there are a lot of
browser performance, and browser compatibility issues with generating
pages based on dynamic requests.  It was very time consuming, because
a lot of it was working with new things, and working around bugs.  But
very interesting none the less :)

I might think of swapping xmlrpc with jsonrpc later on.  However when
I started jsonrpc was not really working very well across
implementations/languages.


Cheers,

Rene Dudfield.
Melbourne websites, creative and technical services
http://www.madecollective.com/



On 9/22/05, Stephan Diehl <stephan.diehl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of developing a kind of web widget library.
> I guess that it will be similar to lifepage (nevow) :)
> The ultimate goal is to have a development platform that allows to write
> Webapplications exactly in the same way than other GUI applications.
> Obviously, I'm still far away from that goal...
> Anyway, the Javascript part will be (is) based on Mochikit. The backend part
> is basicly a JsonRpc Server (at the moment based on Webware).
> The (html) widgets render either as html, if they are served by the webserver
> end or in a json compatible format, if served by the JsonRpc end.
>
> Has anybody done anything like this before? Or thought about it?
>
> If there is real interest, I'd be putting together a release of what I have
> already.
> ----
> Stephan