"Jeff Nowakowski" <j...@dilacero.org> wrote in message news:ieh83c$26g...@digitalmars.com... > On 12/17/2010 09:18 PM, retard wrote: >> >> FWIW, JavaScript still isn't very efficiently supported on many >> platforms. > > Do you think performance is a problem for a mortgage calculator? > > I think the performance issues of JavaScript are way overblown for the > majority of use cases. I think the biggest problem is people keeping open > lots of tabs with crappy JavaScript running from ad farms.
Ok, so why would I want to turn JS on and put up with those shitty browser-killing, user-experience-killing JS Ads just for a calculator that obviously doesn't need it? As for the "nearly a complete duplication of work", it's a duplication of *a simple mathematical formula*. It's a near complete duplication *of something that is utterly trivial to implement either way*. And if you don't already have a system set up for the request/response stuff then you've got a *really* dinky site. And if you *do* have such a dinky site, then tossing in a basic client-server form is trivial.