[Gambas-user] Gambas as language for web development

[Rob]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:46, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> I continue on finding that these techniques are mainly hacks
> wasting resources.

Maybe so, but those hacks are in extremely high demand right now.  CGI 
is fine, but users don't want the entire page to reload when they 
change their selection in a listbox that other form controls depend 
on.  Besides, even CGI itself is a hack, considering that HTTP was 
originally designed to just serve up static pages and provide minimal 
searching.  It's just a hack that's 8 or 9 years older.

And keeping a socket open may be excessive, and I feel totally 
recreating the desktop Gambas experience would probably result in a 
lot of bad applications written by people who don't understand the 
web, but just sending a list of values to populate an HTML select is 
a lot less data than redrawing the entire page.  Same with updating a 
stock ticker or chat window.  That's the sort of thing these 
techniques were really meant to do.

Rob