Rev vs. AJAX...Or Web-Aware Apps vs. Web Apps

[david bovill]

My thinking on this currently is write Rev clients that use XML as a  
file format, and behave like Laszlo or AJAX web applications - that  
is the communicate with the server by sending and receiving XML -  
Restfuly. The argument then goes - anyone can convert this stuff to  
AJAX later - but Rev is just much faster and cheaper to develop in -  
plus of course ....


On 13 Oct 2005, at 22:54, Dan Shafer wrote:

> * generally faster than Web apps
> * not dependent upon a reasonably fast Internet connection
> * not dependent on a server "out there somewhere" being up and  
> running and not overloaded
> * better looking with better user experiences (at least potentially)
> * easier to protect against unauthorized use
> * able to read and write data to and from the user's local drive  
> (which neither Laszlo nor AJAX can do, being confined in a security  
> sandbox)