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So is this just another way to talk about the now-ubiquitous thick-client app? Or is there something revolutionary I don't see in my cursory look at this site?
by rquantz 13y ago
So is this just another way to talk about the now-ubiquitous thick-client app? Or is there something revolutionary I don't see in my cursory look at this site? There is definitely something to be said for building separate services as your API, rather than thinking your static assets have to be married to the data processing backend. But calling that a static app is misleading -- it's still dynamic, and in fact the server is still processing data, it's just distributed.
- badman_ting 13y agoThe assets served to the client are static, they can be served by a simple server, cached through CDNs, etc.
- derengel 13y agoI don't know how it is static either or are you referring that it is 'static' only from the web browser(consumer) point of view? for example, in the backend you could be generating a value from a database.
- badman_ting 13y agoIt's really not worth sperging out about this. It just means the HTML/JS/CSS assets delivered by the front-end server do not change.
- mtrimpe 13y agoSperging out? Are you serious?
- abrichr 13y agoI had to look this one up: Sperging out: When someone goes on a long, in-depth, overly elaborate explanation long after everyone already gets the point, but will not fucking end. [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sperging%20out http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sperging%20ou...
- mtrimpe 13y agoJust so the original author doesn't accidentally misinterpret my complete and utter disgust for his statement as ignorance; I pretty much guessed it instantly. It might be a new term, but as far as I'm concerned it's as bannable an offense as calling someone a faggot or something of that kind.
- mantrax4 13y agoGee, aren't you an outraged little fella.
- mtrimpe 13y agoAh well; thank you for your contribution. Enjoy it here; I have feeling you'll fit right in by now. I'll just retreat to my old-man cave to contemplate a time when the internets had this quaint little place where conversation was civil, the news was enlightening and everyone was striving to break free from the status quo by going at it alone, forging our own path. It was fun while it lasted...
- mantrax4 13y agoDid those old times include being insulted and outraged at every word your co-debaters said? It's quite ironic for you to be sad about the lack of civil discourse, when you used the opportunity to hijack the original point of the poster and start discussing a 'bannable offense' on the occasion of a silly colloqual phrase they used. You think you're taking the high ground? I for one long for a debate where the people talking can stay focused on a topic without being constantly insulted by this or that for the purpose of cheap outrage.
- badman_ting 13y agoNever that.
- striking 13y agoEquating a lack of understanding (through language, unfamiliarity, etc.) with mental disease. Nice
- cmelbye 13y agoHe clearly explained what he means by static. The HTML/CSS/JS assets are served without any preprocessing on the server. And, yes, once it hits the browser, it becomes dynamic through the use of Javascript. Does that make sense?
- derengel 13y agoyeah thanks, so the html are just base templates that get modified of the client?
- rquantz 13y agoYeah, part of the application works that way, but then you still have to write an API, it just lives on a different server.
- badman_ting 13y agoUh huh.