On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Chris Cunnington
<smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Seaside it's mainly pure JavaScript. Not a lot of abstraction over the
> JavaScript there. It's an interesting question what the sweet spot of
> abstracting over JavaScript really is. Altitude has none. Seaside has lots.
> For this JSON example it sort of looks the same on both frameworks.

Yeah, it's quite similar because there's very little happening on the
server side. The Javascript in the browser does all the work, so all
the server is doing is rendering one tag and a snippet of Javascript.

I've thought a little bit about Javascript abstraction in Altitude,
but it's tricky. One of the fundamental things about modern web apps
is that they involve a lot of Javascript in the browser. There are
gazillion ways of writing that Javascript, with a ton of JS
frameworks, programming styles, preprocessing tools and
your-favourite-language-to-javascript compilers. It seems like baking
any fixed way of handling Javascript into Altitude would just limit
what could be done on the client side. There are a few things that
could be really useful—e.g., a DAV server and some way of storing
Javascript within the image—but I can't really see doing anything to
eliminate the need to write Javascript.

Colin