[thelist] JavaScript: How much is too much?

[Siri Atma Oaklander De Licori]

Keep in mind who's paying for your machine and who's
paying for theirs...Doing more of the GUI on the
client side could allow you to service a lot more
users with less hardware and bandwith.

siri

Sreedhar Chintalapaty wrote:

> For example:
...
> Considering an intranet type environment, if I end
up
> with 200-300 KB of JS for the entire application (a
> one time download being no more than 100K), would
you
> consider that to be too big to justify this
solution?

What's the latency of the environment? An "intranet"
for Company A
may be inside a single building, for Company B a
private global net
that includes a distributed headquarters campus in
Kalleeefornia on
OC-12s and sales offices in Tuflukistan on 64k ISDN
lines. :-)

In a low-latency environment, I'd probably put as much
logic on the
server as possible. If it's sub-second response
anyway, why not just
generate the final html and let the browser render it?

I hope someone else chimes in here with an alternate
perspective,
but frankly the more I think about it, the less I'd do
client-side.
Re-sort a grid on a different column, yes, reload the
grid, no.

FWIW!


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