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Are we not coming full circle? Can't you make the argument that we're getting closer to a world in which all the server does is store and retrieve information,
by matthodan 15y ago
Are we not coming full circle? Can't you make the argument that we're getting closer to a world in which all the server does is store and retrieve information, while the browser does the heavy lifting? Thank you JavaScript and web APIs.
- william42 15y agoActually, I'd say we've gotten to the point where it usually doesn't matter who does the «heavy lifting», because CPU time is so comparatively cheap.
- seanp2k 15y agoI'd argue that it still matters tremendously due to scalability concerns. Check out stuff like Sproutcore which moves things that were previously done in PHP to Javascript. That will make a huge difference if you have thousands of users for your application...PHP might require a cluster with a few application server nodes if the data is pretty cachable, while SproutCore might only require a single server if it's just doing JSON API calls or something.
- gbog 15y agoI have the feeling that hard work on browser is still a bad idea.
- dkersten 15y agoWould you say the same is true for, eg, the «heavy lifting» done by a Google search? I certainly wouldn't, so I don't think your statement is true in the general case, though it is certainly true for a large class of software.