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Re: Will the frontend ever use the API, itself?

by Jay R. Ashworth :: Rate this Message:

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:20:44PM +0200, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> Simetrical is right here: the UI and the API call the same functions,
> and display the results in different ways. That's exactly why there's no
> sense in migrating the front end to the API (and that's just forgetting
> about the HTTP overhead involved).

Um, we mean different things by "API", clearly.  

What I think *you* mean by it is "a thin wrapper over the *actual* API".

Am I wrong?

Cheers,
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