Is client-side UI rendering via Javascript a good idea?

Question

The \"classic\" approach to web development has been for some time a thin client and a thick server: the server generates HTML and spits it out for the browser to render only. B

Answer 1

I've done it by hand. It was kind of a pain, but there is some upside. This is only appropriate for rich Internet apps where a fallback makes little sense. I think we'll see more and more apps that require JavaScript, especially after frameworks like Cappuccino Atlas arrives.