Posted by Kadaitcha Man on 12/09/25 11:24

PerfectReign, <theperfectreign@yahoo.com>, the bowlegged, tart farm animal,
and person who collects skins from roadkill, gnarred:

> 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 like still using 386 computers, or outdated blind people software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. :)

Add cross-site searching and you can call it Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Portal Server.

> www.perfectreign.com

Nice portal.

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