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<blockquote><i>[lots of arguments in favour of AJAX snipped]</i></blockquote>
<p>You know, I fully agree with you. I think a lot of resistance is due to the perception of sunk investments and that AJAX is a disruptive technology from the point of view of PM infrastructure. PM wasn't build with asynchronicity in mind and adapting the existing code to use AJAX throughout would be a herculean task... and even then you still wouldn't get the same payback as from an architecture which was designed to take it into account in the first place.</p>
<p>Yes, wanting to comment on a thread should pull down a DOM component to add the necessary editing widgets to the page. No need to re-render all those time-soaking nodelets.</p>
<p>Yes, voting should just push back the decisions and retrieve the node reps. Yes, the chatterbox could do its own refresh.</p>
<p>but...</p>
<p>Such enhancements would require significant time and effort to build; you'd be fighting the codebase every inch of the way.</p>
<p>But God, it would be nice to drag this site into the 21st century, if only from a Perl Public Relations point of view. I spoke with a C# programmer some time ago and when I mentioned Perlmonks... he knew it. He sniggered.</p>
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