> I thought the idea was to keep the clients simple to help
> implementation
> efforts?
> 'Anyone can implement a client, but servers take more
> thought' seems like
> a good model to me as there's many many more people who would want a
> client than would want a server.
This isn't about difficulty as any off the shelf XSLT engine will do
this whether you bung it in the client or the server. It is about the
best distribution of processing power (and an awful lot of desktop
processing power goes unused, or just idles around animating silly paper
clips, so why overload the servers!).
My e-science hat is probably showing a bit in that sentiment though...
Matthew
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