>> On 14-01-2014, at 5:17 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
>> > Meh. Don't worry about it. Seaside is obsolete anyway.
>>
>> Really? I haven’t taken any interest in web development in ages; what’s
>> the replacement for Seaside?
>
>
> It's not that there's a replacement. It's more that the problem it solves
> isn't a problem anymore.  Continuations were a brilliant way to manage apps
> that were basically dynamically generated web pages connected via links and
> forms. But Javascript runtimes have gotten way, way faster, more robust and
> more standardized in the last 10 years.  Modern web apps are more of a
> client-server model: the UI rendering and interface logic is all done in
> Javascript running in the browser, and it communicates with the server by
> shuttling JSON back and forth over HTTP. In that sort of a system,
> continuations don't provide any benefit, and the drawbacks start to become
> significant.

Continuations were never good for UI design anyway.  Modal.

What about HTML / DOM, is it still relevant in 2014?