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Following an IRC-discussion I thought I’d outline what I’d like to see in what is commonly called web 2.0, and it probably isn’t what you’d think First of all, the main limitation of the web is not HTML, but HTTP. We need to redesign HTTP to allow persistent connections, thus allowing easier asynchronous data transfer and allowing for the server to push data to the client. This would be great, since this is basically what we use JS and AJAX to compensate for.

Then I thought, well a redesigned HTTP is great, but we have to have some way of using it. Web application is just an imitation of the real applications, that we use on our desktop computers. And how do we design those? It’s not with mark-up code and forms, I’ll tell you that. We design it with Apples Interface Designer

Something similar should also be done for Web 2.0, since a new HTTP (a HTTP 2.0) would allow for REAL MVC development. We should therefore find a way for using the views (the V in MVC) over HTTP 2.0. The models and the controllers should of course be server-side.

If we did this, and the OS manufacturers would implement drag&drop into this we would have a really great platform for building web applications.