XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World by Christopher Alexander presentation recorded live in San Jose, California, October, at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA).
How to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole, covers specific advice on making effective use of interface elements, and the philosophy and general design principles behind GNOME interface.