Dioscuri, another application layer protocol

[Jason McBrayer]

Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org> writes:

> The following is not gonna sound retro, but… if parts of the page
> could update without reloading the entire page, that'd go a long way
> to alleviate a lot of people's desire for JavaScript, AJAX etc. One
> button, one checkbox, one text field etc could be sent without having
> to send the entire form, and one local UI area could be updated
> without having to refetch the entire page.

You might be interested in looking at intercooler.js
(https://intercoolerjs.org/) and HTMX (https://htmx.org/), which
implement this pattern in the browser. Of course, browsers don't
natively support HTMX, so it's written in JavaScript; but a browser
*could* implement almost all of it without also implementing JavaScript.

Of course, it seems to me that this is also how IBM 3270 terminals
worked, more or less.

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