[thelist] JavaScript: How much is too much?

Scott wolpow scott at netalytical.com
Sun Jan 18 20:11:39 CST 2004


My 2 cents:
I am building an online app. As I will have control on what will be on the 
client side I would be inclined to have more JS.
Scott

At 08:51 PM 1/18/04, you wrote:
>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.
>
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