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These new tools are fairly different from the client-server applications of the 90s (and 00s and even now). Those desktop applications did have a lot of chrome

by klint 14y ago

These new tools are fairly different from the client-server applications of the 90s (and 00s and even now). Those desktop applications did have a lot of chrome on the client side, but the "real work" was being done on the server. Normal AJAX apps are more like those 90s apps - the UI lives in the client, but they rely more heavily on the server than a CouchApp would. That said, all these Meteor and Firebase apps could end up having quite a bit of middleware and end up not seeming all that radical, depending on how much stuff gets added on.

rhizome 14y ago
You're right that they're different, but I think they probably use the same CS concepts, which is why we keep seeing the see-saw between thick and thin clients. Keep in mind that the thin-client trend that we saw in the late-90s/early 2000s was driven by Sun, who was selling a ton of big iron in those days (you weren't serious if you didn't have an E4K), not because there was some grand new technology that required them for functionality or usability.