[Sigia-l] Keeping pages current on an intranet / Best Practic es
Ziya Oz
ZiyaOz at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 10 16:06:38 EDT 2002
"Fiorito, David" wrote:
> So long as people use computers/PDAs/wired phones/coffee makers/ATMs/etc.
> there will be front ends. Actually as long as we have eyes there will be
> front ends.
>
> Timeliness is relative. Some data never needs to change, some changes over
> centuries, or decades, and other data changes constantly. The only thing
> that matters is relevance.
You've already lost me on these generalities.
Weather/stock/flight/etc data changes at a precise point in time. This
*change* maybe be propagated to you if your last check was flagged as
earlier. There's nothing relative about this timeliness. There's no reason
for you to waste time going through URLs, pages and clicks to hunt for this
change. Any 'front-end' that requires you to do so now or in the future is
brain dead.
My point was that more of these time/context-sensitive data fetches will be
done by the client machines, requiring far less human interaction and far
more automation.
> What you're talking about is not a revolutionary concept.
I didn't say it was revolutionary at all. In fact, I gave an example of two
online apps I developed at the dawn of the web. The point is that the new
infrastructure makes this easier and more likely to develop and deploy.
> ... The fact that the presentation is personalized by a computer is
> unimportant.
You've got to be kidding.
Best,
Ziya
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