Re: [vwrap] Technical basis for VW client in a web browser?

[Brian Hurley <[e-mail]>]

"And to the (diffuse but omnipresent) argument that OS/SL are such
heavy, difficult, dauntingly overcomplicated project, so was Apache,
and what happened ? Nginx happened, nodejs happened. Storing assets in
mysql ? Gosh, how about redis, mongo, couch,... Want more sqlness,
take riak,... Opengl on my iphone ? Hey, it's been there for years.
Javascript too slow ? You didn't test v8 properly, and even so,
javascript will be the glue, not the core language for libraries, etc,
etc..."

I believe the other thing that happened is that Veronica and Archie paved the way.

I was using Archie as a client to talk to Veronica servers about 2 years before 
Apache and Mozilla were more than idle chit chat....

And this was on early Mac OS platforms....  Win and BSD etc were already well established in this area.

>From my perspective there is really not much new today except the protocols used to transport the 
content.

cheers

On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:51 AM, peter host wrote:

> And to the (diffuse but omnipresent) argument that OS/SL are such
> heavy, difficult, dauntingly overcomplicated project, so was Apache,
> and what happened ? Nginx happened, nodejs happened. Storing assets in
> mysql ? Gosh, how about redis, mongo, couch,... Want more sqlness,
> take riak,... Opengl on my iphone ? Hey, it's been there for years.
> Javascript too slow ? You didn't test v8 properly, and even so,
> javascript will be the glue, not the core language for libraries, etc,
> etc...