A major benefit of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">AJAX</st1:place></st1:city> web application over a standard desktop<o:p></o:p> application is that it’s built from the beginning to consume data and not<o:p></o:p> documents; this data can come from a central web server or an external<o:p></o:p> web service. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">AJAX</st1:place></st1:city> applications revolve around accessing and displaying<o:p></o:p> data. Unlike desktop applications, which are typically confined to local data<o:p></o:p> storage or use the network access occasionally for updates, AJAX-based<o:p></o:p> applications are consumers of web accessible data. Using the browser to<o:p></o:p> orchestrate and consume data from multiple sources in one interface is<o:p></o:p> powerful and opens a whole new range of applications that we explore<o:p></o:p> later. We have already seen this shift in how we consume and sometimes<o:p></o:p> produce web pages versus documents. Now, we have the ability to push<o:p></o:p> further and consume and update different types of data merely with the<o:p></o:p> browser.
我的译文:
AJAX Web应用相对于标准的桌面应用其一个主要的好处在于它构建的初衷是消费数据而不是消费文档(译注:这里“消费”是指访问和显示数据,“文档”是指传统桌面的文档,例如 word,pdf类型文档);这个数据可以来自于一个中央Web服务器或一项外在的Web服务。AJAX应用围绕着访问和显示数据展开。不同于桌面应用,被典型的限制到本地存储数据和偶尔的使用网络更新数据。基于AJAX的应用是web可访问数据的消费者。使用浏览器在一个界面里组织和消费来自各种各样资源的数据,这很强大并且开启了一个完整的全新应用范围。(我们将在以后提到。)我们已经看到了这种消费数据方式的变化以及不时的创建网页而非文档。。现在,我们有能力走得更远并仅仅依靠浏览器来消费和更新不同种类的数据。
问题:原文里的 documents. 应该如何理解? 文档? 桌面应用消费文档??
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谢谢:)