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[nycphp-talk] AJAX and State

Kenneth Downs ken at secdat.com
Fri Sep 7 06:49:27 EDT 2007


Elliotte Harold wrote:
> tedd wrote:
>
>>  From many of the post here, I thought someone had discovered 
>> something new.
>>
>
> Discovering something truly new is rare. There's almost always someone 
> who discovered it before you. Sometimes we don't believe them, though, 
> until we discover it for ourselves.
>
> Interestingly though what Ken rediscovered is not AJAX. It's one of 
> the design principles of REST: all application state should be stored 
> on the client and passed to the server with each request. That he 
> discovered this in the context of AJAX is an implementation detail.
>

Actually the idea was that you don't have to pass the state to the 
server, it stays on the client.    But otherwise yes that is the idea.

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Kenneth Downs
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