Re: PHP on the client

Alex Black writes: > huh? > > javascript is extremely specialized, and while I agree that it is not > perfect, PHP and javascript are used for entirely different things. > Javascript is for dealing with events on the cilent side, doing stuff like > window spawns, and gute little active graphics apps... PHP is a burrly > server side language for creating complex apps. > -- > Alex Black, Head Monkey > enigma@turingstudio.com That's my point really. Javascript is presently very useful for doing stuff on the client side, but it can also be a very useful language on the server side - it's just not that pleasant to use. PHP gained its popularity on the server side mainly because of that ease of use, but it obviously had to have some teeth in capabilities or it wouldn't be where it is today. The logical next step to it now might be PHP (extensions) on the client side. These would be PHP extensions that could tell the client to do things that we presently send javascript to it to do - return window size, preload images, mouseovers, whatever. Programmers would still have to keep straight in their heads what was operating on each side, but the single-language-approach should make it easier for same programmers, and it seems reasonable that this would lead to client-server interaction that would be smoother than what we currently have, such as smooth chat sessions, or even animation with the same quality as swf, etc. Billy