Signin
Sash is Trash

Sash is also slow, bloated, and bewildering.  A simple weblication that should require only a few K of JavaScript and DHTML somehow end up almost a megabyte of download.  Funny thing is that source code (wdx) files are indeed small (a few K) as expected but compressed.  What is the point of using compressed source format when binary ends up being hundred times larger?

Installation of these weblications is even worse.  You have to individually review and grant security rights to them.  Why not just download them into a quaranteened area and then ask when they are actually used for the entire group of weblications?  As it is, they are discouraging people from trying out sample weblications with all the warnings and prompting.  Its like a waiter asking the temperature and ratio of tomato over brocolli in my salad.  Can't IBM afford to have a UI specialist review Sash?

Sash is huge and makes one wonder what is in it.  Even worse is the development environment which seems as big and slow as Visual Studio.  I'll bet most users will gladly trade fancy debuggers in return for ability to directly edit with a simple text editor and test with a web browser.

Put it all together and one ends up feeling that Sash is nothing more than a pile of glittering Trash.  All the neat ideas, potentials, sweats, and dreams that went into it ends up being nothing because of bad amateurish execution.

Comments
Rob Winner   at 2003/01/02 04:45:04 AM
I aggree that slash is trash but radio isn't any better
Is there something you could link to about it?
Sash has not materialized into anything but a waste of time. Other technologies are more promising: REBOL, Qarbon, etc.
I think a better approach is using more of the browser, JavaScript and DHTML such as hakmanpeachey.com
The genesis of Sash dates back to 1998, when a bunch of IBM interns fell over the ideas we were publishing for a 'non-browser' toolkit. They took the route to mega-dom, we're still at 260K with Zeepe.
hackmanpeachey.com (Versalent.com now) looks interesting but it doesn't feel lik web and its is not geared up to let users tinker with it like the way HTML is. I want some thing that looks and feels like normal web applications that everyone is already familiar with and lets the user play with, extend as needed, and share with others. Something that will fireup developers and amateurs alike.

I have to disagree with you guys, Sash has GREAT potential!
Remember JS and DHTML have been around for a while. Also think about development costs supporting NS4, IE4/5/6 and NS7. Waving your hands and saying "a few K of JS/DHTML" is fine until you start doing anything complicated.

Comment has been disabled for this post.