Posted by PerfectReign on 10/16/39 11:24

someone posing as Kadaitcha Man figured someone gave a rat's ass and spewed
out:

> 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 still using 386 computers, or outdated blind people software that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.

LOL!

Same exact thing (with the XML and CSS) seems to match my J2EE applications,
too. :)
--
kai
www.perfectreign.com
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