Re: 'Pure' client-side javscript database?

Kevin wrote:
> Richard Cornford wrote:
>> A client-side database? Now there is a spectacularly bad idea. The
>> last thing you want to do is have the client download an entire
>> database just so it can extract a tiny part of it. Server-side is
>> where the database belongs, and where the task of extracting data
>> from it should happen.
>
> Well, he didn't say anything about downloading an entire database.
<snip>

Have you considered the implications of "implemented a database with a
subset of SQL in pure client-side javascript"? Particularly the words
"in pure client-side javascript". If the only active technology used is
client-side javascript then the data has to go to the client.

> For that matter, client-only applications can simply use
> DHTML as a display device, and never connect to a server.

Is a browser still a client if there is no server? Without a server
don't you have a stand alone application running in a browser?

Richard.
Received on Tue Oct 18 03:14:01 2005