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November 09, 2004
The benefit of sharing application state
In a Web application, those hooks are simply URLs. Consider what happens when you include a MapQuest URL in an email to someone. A piece of state information -- namely, the state of the MapQuest viewer when displaying a given location -- has been reduced to a token that one person can hand to another. The same thing can usefully apply to the state of a shopping cart, or an airline reservation.The idea that an application wears its state information on its sleeve, readily available for users to bookmark, modify, and trade, is an underappreciated strength of Web-based software
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/11/09.html#a1110
That's a benefit of web applications I've never really realized before. Though not entirely true if the the state isn't totally on the server (e.g. it's dependant on a local cookie so I can't email you the link + the cookie)
Posted by mikel at November 9, 2004 06:55 PM
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