Dialogs becoming First Class Citizens
One of the things that has been a real pain in my career is that -- while building Web UIs -- in many cases I had to carry conversational state across a number of HTML pages without having the proper tools to do so. In these cases, the conversational state is bound to the unit of work or activity, and not to a session. I can't tell you how many frameworks I've used that didn't consider dialogs to be a first class citizen. The talk on Shale really made my day: Shale already provides rudimentary support for it, and it will continue to evolve to support multiple concurrent dialog instances...
( Jun 30 2005, 02:00:26 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [1]

