Chapter 15. User interaction
This chapter covers:
One-way communication is entertaining at best, rude and authoritarian at worst. So far we’ve looked at presentation as if there were little or no opportunity for the user to talk back to the application. This is obviously not enough for most web applications.
In some applications, though, talking back may not be necessary. You might just want to get the latest stock quotes from a database and display them in a list. That’s relatively easy to do; eliminating interaction simplifies our job as programmers greatly.
When we do need interaction, there are challenges that are specific to creating that interaction, and it’s a different kind of challenge with web interfaces than with other kinds of user interfaces.