Re: Dynamic Web Page

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7C0F39AA2E11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Segel wrote: > You don't. Your client is running a java applet. if you change URLs, > your java applet will recognize this, and send an unsubscribe message, > and close the ip port connection. The applet then dies. > As well, there is no *nature* of the web. The *web* is nothing more > than a nexus of decentralized multimedia data sources. Perhaps "the nature of the web as it is currently used" would be more appropriate. > The problem is that you are thinking in past/present terms rather than > present/future terms. And your problem is that you are assuming the entire industry is on the bleeding edge of Web technology. Fact is, most places are 2-3 years behind the most current tech. Java isn't even available for better than half the platforms our customers are on. An a whole lot of folks are using browsers that do not support Java applets. So please don't speak in absolutes - there's a lot of grey in the industry. > I'm sorry I seem flippant, or short sometimes. This entire issue can > be done, and has been done. Read the ACM journals. I forget who > wrote TIB but it was published in a January issue of one of the > ACM journals. ('92, '93, '94 Operating Systems I think) Same argument could have been made 10 years ago about relational databases. Stuff we now take for granted was undoable back then. But that was where the industry was, and those of us who have to work in environments that are a bit behind the times have to deal with it. > Dave K. is one of the really, really smart guys at Informix. Watch it - you're slobbering on my butt, there son. I'm no smarter than the average bear. I'm a bit too old to know everything any more. -- Dave Kosenko, Informix Professional Services **************************************************************** While it is true that there is more than one way to skin a cat, the cat himself generally fails to appreciate the differences. --------------7C0F39AA2E11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Disclaim" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Disclaim" ************************************************************************* Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in this message are well-reasoned and insightful; needless to say, they are not those of Informix Software, its partners or lackeys. Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight. --------------7C0F39AA2E11--