Another NOLOH Blogger Talks JavaScript-Free AJAX
A UK blogger named Gary Wynne, who's been working with NOLOH for over a year, has started a new blog about our mutually favorite Web app development tool. This one focuses on how easy it is to get into the habit of writing sexy AJAX user experience code without a single line of JavaScript, all within the NOLOH language syntax. Very cool. I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the whole Web App development space. It's clear to me that the coming move to HTML5, which is already farther along than most folks who aren't hard-core developers realize, is going to change things in very fundamental ways. One thing that it portends is the ability with the right development tools to create Web apps that look and behave properly on desktop browsers and on handheld/smartphone browsers. How do I get there with the least friction? I'm counting on my friends at NOLOH to solve this for me. And I'm betting that they will. Reading Gary's AJAX piece and reflecting on how much I can get done in NOLOH without writing anything but NOLOH code has further convinced me I'm betting on the right horse here. Even though Smalltalk remains my favorite language and even though it is true that for my personal Web projects I can choose any tool I like, I'm leaning strongly in the direction of staying with NOLOH. I figure if they can implement AJAX fluidity as absolutely painlessly as they have, they can make whatever I want or need to do pretty accessible. Plus, I have the lead developers' home number. :-)
