- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:58:27 +0100 (MET)
- To: Jim King <jimk@mathtype.com>, "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Feb 4, 11:33am, Jim King wrote: > At 10:43 AM 2/4/97 -0800, Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote: > >If all processing is done on the server, you're essentially shipping RTF > >to the client... and you've either collected a lot of information about > >your environment from the client (information that many people don't > >want to provide to just anyone), or made a lot of assumptions. Our > >software people like this view a lot. > >:^) > > But I bet your server people don't. For a popular web site, the load on the > server to do everything server-side is a big problem. That and bandwidth > restrictions are half the reason for client-side stuff. Yes. Creating custom versions for everyone that connects also kills cacheing. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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