merits of client-side (was Re: [xsl] accessing previous and next element in a loop)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:45 AM 9/25/01, Guillaume wrote:
> Why don't you use server-side processing rather than works-once-fails-many
> client-side ?

Notwithstanding that XML is "SGML for the web", there are many strong use 
cases for XML off line.

For example, in my spare time I've been cooking up a little time-logging 
application, that takes my daily logs and crunches them to create my time 
sheets (as well as doing other things with the data). This is a classic 
one-source, several-stylesheets application, but it makes no sense at all 
to run it off the web. I want it to run off-line and standalone. CSS can't 
come close.

I'd like to share it at work, but some colleagues use Macs. And I'm still 
spoiled enough not to like being locked into *any* particular tool.

So let's not disparage the hope -- not yet completely forlorn -- that some 
day standards-based, platform-independent client-side processing will be 
possible. There are applications for it.

> <rant>
> Also, as many unix user, i hate site saying : if you don't use IE, use
> Netscape :-)
> </rant>

I'd like any IE alternative. Nor am I saying I'd stop using IE. The app 
vendors should be keeping each other honest.

Cheers,
Wendell




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