Shibboleth Developers

["Mark Wilcox" <>]

Like Tom (and many others), I really dig Gmail :).

I've been thinking about this type of UI technology since I first read about
it (http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/gmailagent.asp - note it's .NET, but
good anyway) - but haven't yet had a chance to use it (most of my life is
no-GUI command-line driven stuff). 

The short-summary is that you build most of the UI out of DHTML and
JavaScript. And instead of sending a bunch of HTML  elements back and forth
or having some type of XML transformation going on, the browser primarily
sends simple strings of data, which are easy to parse on the server AND are
native JavaScript arrays.

This minimizes data transfer and is quicker to parse which improves overall
performance. 

And at the moment, IMHO an excellent example of why we can't write off the
browser :).

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Scavo 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:37 PM
> To: 
> 
> Cc: 
> ;
>  Jennifer Vine
> Subject: Re: a new way of building web app's?
> 
> Not sure about the underlying technology (see
> http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html) but Gmail is the
> absolute best e-mail client I've used (web or desktop).  Highly
> recommended!
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:33:54 -0500, 
> 
> <>
>  wrote:
> > I recently saw this entry on Jon Udell's blog, describing how gmail
> > has been programmed.... I was wondering whether anyone has any
> > experience with this approach, and whether it might be at all
> > relevant to the proposed SHARPE GUI for maintaining ARPs?
> >
> > http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/10/26.html#a1102