Posted by Kadaitcha Man on 12/22/81 11:24

PerfectReign, <theperfectreign@yahoo.com>, the indistinguishable, luckless
la de da fruit salad, and scene-shifter, sounded off:

> someone posing as Onideus Mad Hatter figured someone gave a rat's ass
> and spewed out:
>
>> I think I've developed "the best" means of creating a website. The
>> idea is to use a layered approach and to avoid fallbacks (ie
>> redundancy) as much as possible.
>>
>> The first layer would be the "Display Layer". This would basically
>> be the site itself, created wholly using Flash for maximum cross
>> browser and cross platform compatibility with absolutely NO room for
>> guess work. If it works on your system with Flash it will work on
>> any system with Flash. You can't do too much hybrid shit cause then
>> you run into cross compatibility issues (like whether Flash
>> transparencies will work or not).
>>
>> The next layer would be the "Context Layer". It would use RSS to
>> describe the site and its contents. The main purpose of this layer
>> would be for search engines...I don't know if any search engines are
>> setup so they can use RSS in any meaningful way at the moment, but
>> I'm sure that's where things are headed (it just makes sense).
>>
>> The final layer would be the "Primate Layer", this layer would be
>> optional and would consist of just pure text, no tags and no links.
>> It would be for the benefit of the .001% of the population whose like
>> still using 386 computers, or outdated blind people software that
>> couldn't read RSS tags or weird kooky freaky people who have
>> everything disabled because they think the space ship is going to
>> come down and get them or whatever (ie Lynx users). It would also
>> serve to help primitive search engines like Google.
>>
>> So the new Backwater Site will be delayed for about a week or so
>> while I start to implement this new design theory. The final
>> version is going to look something like this (only all in Flash):
>> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/bw3/
>> (touch the frog with your mouse, its funny)
>
> Know what? Matt might have an idea here.
>
> I think I'll do this on one of my sites. Instead of putting all my
> code and markup in one page, I'll separate it.
>
> How's this, folks?
>
> 1. All HTML and Javascript go into pages rendered by the browser. (I
> might call this the presentation layer.)
>
> 2. All Database commands and queries will go into a compiled
> application running on an app server, called by the web pages. (I'll
> call this the, um, data layer.)
>
> 3. All business logic - such as which databases
> (DB2/IMS/MSSQL/Oracle) - or which employee calculations happen, or
> which building lookups - should go inta another series of compiled
> applications on the same (or different) application server. (I'll
> call this the 'business logic' layer.) In fact, for speed, maybe
> I'll put these compiled apps on the new zOS server.
>
> Hey, that sounds cool! What does everybody think?

That's a very innovative idea. Why not throw in a bit of XML and a few
cascading style sheets as well? Then you can call it Microsoft Windows
SharePoint Services.

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