>Again, depends on the site, but many people now have (effectively) supercomputers, so why not leverage some of that? I agree, but seems ridiculous that my ("s

>Again, depends on the site, but many people now have (effectively) supercomputers, so why not leverage some of that? I agree, but seems ridiculous that my ("super") computer at current is using 7.4GB of RAM and 7% CPU for just FireFox alone, for what is mostly static content. >One of my side-projects is an HTML5/JavaScript games site. If somebody disables JavaScript they'll get a nice message explaining why they need to enable it to play the games, otherwise what would my fallback option be? Flash? Bleurgh! No thanks. That's an edge case, of course, that requires client side computing. The alternative is exceptionally infeasible for everybody involved.