> http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/08/10/049200.shtml
contains this quote, "Why should Slashdot and other DB driven sites rely
on a servers processing power when the client machine is mostly idle? I
think colaboration between client side and server side scripters in an
OSS context could make things much more efficient."
This goes again to the issue of RAD. Most clients today have the power
to operate the Defense Department, and they're only going to become more
powerful. How do we take advantage of this easily and quickly?
A phenomenally useful client task would be to take data off the server
and display it graphically; however, this is exactly what Javascript
cannot do, I think. Scalable vector graphics doesn't do it either: the
data has already been processed on the server side. What is needed is a
client that takes raw numbers off the server's database and folds them
into a wizard graph. Very efficient.
John
