The world rejoiced as nabifadel@usj.edu.lb ("Najib Abi Fadel") wrote:
> i don't see any practical use of javascript with Postgresql, since a
> java script is on the client side.
>
> Unless you want each client machine to have its own database
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, there _is_ a practical use for this.
Mozilla/XUL applications presently have to jump through considerable
hoops to get data stored anywhere more sophisticated than files.
It seems to me that having PostgreSQL support more directly embedded
in Mozilla's ECMAScript implementation would encourage building more
data driven applications, which is hardly a bad thing.
<http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Formats/Markup_Languages/XML/Applications/XUL/Applications/>
There aren't any of that style now, which is hardly surprising, as the
present ways involve jumping through various hoops that are doubtless
painful both to code, support, and to watch run in slow-like-molasses
fashion...
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