On 2006-08-27, Grumman-581 wrote:
HTML was OK as it was originally designed -- as a markup mechanism for
text... What we've done with it since is ridiculous... Personally, I
would have preferred to have seen X-Windows or even DisplayPostScript
adopted, but oh well, such is life... A better technical solution is
not always the one that gets selected...

Sometimes, a god-awful "solution" (more of a precipitate, me thinks)
gets selected. AJAX is an _abortion_ - it really does feel like trying
to tighten phillips screws with the tip of a steak knife. AJAX may be
the buzzword du jour but it's _nasty_. Trying to draw interfaces in
HTML...ugh. Not to mention the typical AJAX user interface makes a ZX
Spectrum look lightning fast.

SOAP is another. Have you ever looked at a SOAP call with a web analyzer
and seen what crap has to go over the wire just to return a boolean
value? XML should absolutely never be used for RPC calls. What were they
thinking? That's not to mention the layers of crap each call has to go
through to actually get to the code its supposed to run. Then look at
the insanity that's a WSDL file.

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