[Typo3-dev] AJAX - for fe/be

[Thomas Murphy]

dan frost wrote:
> I like this idea - perhaps strip the backend down to some basic 
> libraries (TCA, extMgm etc) which have *no* UI implemented at all. Then 
> provide a kind of BE-kickstarter which enables developers to re-build it...

Yes, that would be nice, could even lead to some FE/BE-editing hybrid 
modes, several interfaces to TYPO3, even Desktop Applications perhaps 
(@Dan: Something you spoke about on the Snowboard tour).

But it's like Masi said somewhere: Those ideas always lead to rewrites 
of core components. And I think this would be the best thing anyway... 
we can't assume that the current overall concept with those static SQL 
scripts shipped with each extension will get us anywhere near true DBAL.
It's the same with other things like the BE-GUI.
And refactoring might take 10-times as long as rewriting the stuff.
Taking JSR-170, the possibilities of PHP5 and other nice concepts into 
account, a rewrite seems to me the only clean cut...

bye,
Murphy