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render verb 1. provide or give (a service, help, etc.). "money serves as a reward for services rendered" 2. cause to be or become; make. "the rains rendered h
by mdpye 6y ago
render
verb
1. provide or give (a service, help, etc.).
"money serves as a reward for services rendered"
2. cause to be or become; make.
"the rains rendered his escape impossible"
3. represent or depict artistically.
"the eyes and the cheeks are exceptionally well rendered"
You seem to be stuck on the 3rd definition (there are more, but 1, 2 and 3 cover everything we need here to see how it's appropriate based on both the server and client side actions.
The other way of looking to it is that the server renders [something] to HTML, and the client renders HTML to pixels.
It's quite common to refer to things being rendered to another forms, the term is not owned by processes with a visual output.
- qubex 6y ago> You seem to be stuck on the 3rd definition Quite possibly. I concede the point. > It's quite common to refer to things being rendered to another forms I think it’s my mathematical background. I tend to think of these kinds of processes as ‘transformations’.
- mdpye 6y agoHeh, sorry to beat you over the head with it. You're certainly right that they are transformations. That feels like a more general term (within this context, obvs not in the context of render as "to give"), but I can't tease out what the difference is in my understanding of them.