| Heimidal | replikant: YAML = data in a file, sort of like a flat-file database. REST = a methodology for accessing any kind of resource |
| cdcarter | at its heart, that is |
| afrench | ladies and gents, that's called bumping your powersupply and accidently bouncing your router |
| eventualbuddha | and Ajax = Asynchronous Javascript and XML |
| cdcarter | haha |
| replikant | ajax is basically javascript using that tag... right? |
| cdcarter | yes |
| eventualbuddha | Ajax has taken on the meaning that cdcarter mentioned, but its original form was simply referring to the XMLHttpRequest object |
| dagbrown | ajax is what Microsoft caused by accident when they wrote an XmlHttpRequest function |
| replikant | exactly its basically a hack:) |
| afrench | oh I'm sure they did it intentionally....but it was such a good idea that no one ran with it |
| eventualbuddha | and so most non-techs think that anything in JS is Ajax |
| dagbrown | eventualbuddha: A few years ago, everything in JS was DHTML! |
| cdcarter | or DHTML as the olddtimers called it |
| afrench | DOM != DHTML though |
| Heimidal | "DOM Scripting" is the preferred term by many now. |
| replikant | now whats dom? |
| Heimidal | Document Object Model |
| cdcarter | DOM is complex essentially gives you the HTML of that page as objects |
| dagbrown | Heimidal: It is? I've never heard THAT one. I guess they want to get away from the "unicorns following the cursor" associations of JavaScript. |
| replikant | display dependant on browser? |
| cdcarter | ones that JS can fuck with and change |
| Heimidal | at its most basic level, DOM is a a tree-like interpretation of any HTML/XML document created after the browser has parsed the document. dagbrown: it's gaining popularity http://domscripting.com/ (also the name of a book Jeremy Keith wrote) |
| replikant | you are basically saying web browsers are really ugly, right?:)) |
| cdcarter | i dont see that being said at all |
| replikant | *sigh* |
| cdcarter | and why does that smiley have a double chin? |
| eventualbuddha | cdcarter: lol |
| replikant | irc mkeup language... it hides my non-shavedness |
| dagbrown | replikant: This whole dynamic-web-page thing is to try and make web browsers more than just trumped-up IBM 3270 terminals. |
| replikant | dagbrown it surely makes sense... and it is being done for a long time |
| afrench | we picked one hell of an environment to develop in, eh? |
| eventualbuddha | dagbrown: oh god. i once used a website (UCSB's course scheduler) that was clearly just a frontend for a terminal app. it was horrid i would have vastly preferred a telnet connection |