Client-side or server-side processing?

Question

So, I\'m new to dynamic web design (my sites have been mostly static with some PHP), and I\'m trying to learn the latest technologies in web development (which seems to be AJAX)

Answer 1

It is much better to do the heavy lifting on the server side.

In CodeIgniter you create a view, looping through all the rows in the table adding in the classes or whatever else you would need. There is no reason at all to do this in Javascript.

Javascript is a sickly abused language with unfortunate syntax. Why on earth would you want to load a page, and then issue a AJAX call to load up some JSON objects to push into a table is beyond me. There is little reason to do that.

Javascript (and jQuery) is for end user enhancement. Make things slide, flash, disappear! It is not for data processing in even the mildest of loads. The end user experience would be crap because you're relying on their machine to process all the data when you have a server that is infinitely more capable and even designed for this specifically.