{"id":167,"date":"2001-03-19T04:26:41","date_gmt":"2001-03-19T09:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=167"},"modified":"2001-03-19T04:26:41","modified_gmt":"2001-03-19T09:26:41","slug":"choosing-your-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/03\/19\/choosing-your-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"choosing your battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nit&#8217;s all about what you&#8217;re trying to solve.  the inability of most current browsers to do SOAP or XML-RPC outta the box will be solved by the arrival of the next generation of browsers.  any attempts to get it happening before that will result in two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a temporary bridge to the future<\/li>\n<li>a permanent bridge to the past<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>i have to agree with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\">webstandards<\/a> folks that we&#8217;ve gotta stop pandering to those who refuse to get with the program.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nthe upshot of this is that i&#8217;m not going to pursue hacky, kludged SOAP and XML-RPC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/038071115X\/107-2890315-0087753\">colostomy bag add-ons<\/a>.  for now i&#8217;ll use my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenzing-norgay.com\">trusted sherpa guide<\/a> remote scripting to keep the UI smooth, and do the real acrobatics on the server side where I can already use XML-based RPC in all its splendour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s all about what you&#8217;re trying to solve. the inability of most current browsers to do SOAP or XML-RPC outta the box will be solved by the arrival of the next generation of browsers. any attempts to get it happening before that will result in two things: a temporary bridge to the future a permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}