[uf-rest] ahah/xhtml and meta tags

[Dimitri Glazkov]

On 3/17/06, David Heinemeier Hansson <david at loudthinking.com> wrote:
> > Are you saying you're not interested in serving markup to user agents
> > that don't support JS? Or am I misunderstanding?
>
> HTML agents for the work we do at 37signals, yes.

I can't help but question validity of this approach. I may be
idealistic in my thinking, but I've always tried to keep specific
application and long-term strategy "together but separate".

What about mobile applications, or using HTML as the API?

> But I've actually just added support to Rails to make it much easier
> if you wanted to.
>
> respond_to do |type|
>    type.html { redirect_to :action => "index" }
>    type.js   { render :action => "create.rjs" }
> end
>
> So if you want to service non-JS HTML clients with Rails, it's easier
> than ever.

I really ought to get into this Rails thing.

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