Sans Browser » Server http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser Merging the best of the web and desktop Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:25:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The HTML Output Assumption http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2007/04/18/the-html-output-assumption/ http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2007/04/18/the-html-output-assumption/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:13:00 +0000 enefekt http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2007/04/18/the-html-output-assumption/ An excellent post here by Dave Thomas on PragDave, one of OG Pragmatic Programmers.

He really drives home the point of server-side applications needing to be client-independent, not assuming the client is a browser, and spitting out just HTML.

Favorite antagonistic quote:

Recently, folks have been trying to circumvent this simplicity by making browser-based applications more interactive using technologies such as Ajax. To my mind, this is just a stop-gap until we throw the browser away altogether—Ajax is just lipstick on a pig

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