Both my proposal and (I believe) the one by Dave Kristol intend to
provide *some* minimal support for stateful dialogs as soon as
possible, not to be the ultimate stateful dialog solution.
> When the web gets truly large, cache hit
>rates have to be *very* high.
Imminent death of the net predicted.
I don't know if cache hut rates will *have* to be very high, or even
if they will be. I can imagine a large (but not necessarily fast)
web, even without any caching.
While I agree that a stateful dialog implemented with client-side Java
scripts will generally consume less bandwidth, I don't think that Java
browsers will be generally available, and, more importantly, generally
used by more than, say, 90% of web users for some years to come.
The currently discussed proposals intend to provide support for
stateful dialogs as soon as possible, say within half a year.
Koen.