[plt-scheme] Web framework question

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 12 22:16:22 EDT 2010

> IMHO continuation is a great model for the web prior to the
> wide-spread of ajax.  With ajax or other RIA mechanism, most of the
> flow control moves to the client side.

This is a simplistic distinction.  Even in Ajax applications, some
amount of control flow remains on the server, for various reasons:
security, limitations of operations in browser, desire for sequential
execution (not guaranteed by asynchronous sends), etc.  Furthermore,
the continuation generated by SEND/SUSPEND is a great target point for
the URL invoked by XMLHttpRequest.

Shriram


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