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Has Web Development Lost Its Way?
From:Joe Klemmer
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:56:29 -0500

Introducing an open source Java AJAX component based web application
development framework

By: Jose M. Arranz
Nov. 27, 2007 10:45 AM

To understand where web development is going, we need a brief review of
web development history. Many years have gone since the old CGI bridge
was invented, a quick hack to achieve the impossible, create
server-based web applications. The first CGI based web applications were
C (and Perl) programs based on a terrific mix of HTML and printf calls.
This primitive approach was valid to build those "magic" dynamic web
pages constructed with our data introduced with forms. This was the
starting point of a race to improve the developer tools and the user
experience. The live web starts here.

http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/465200.htm