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Saturday, October 12, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/10/14/021014apclientdev.xml Building a better browser James R. Borck The Internet's servercentric model is demonstrating itself too slow and too static for the medium to advance beyond a document warehouse. Static forms are persistently cornering server resources. Round-trip server calls hog bandwidth and hinder the user experience. Emerging distributed services-oriented computing models further call for faster, smarter workflow than is attainable via browser-based DHTML and JavaScript. Rich Internet applications aim to smarten up browser-based interaction by making better use of client-side processing capacity. By leveraging tools such as Java applets and client-side databases to greater processing advantage, rich Internet applications improve functionality while reducing the number of calls to the server for information....
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