Category: web products

Now we have these lightweight applications that don’t need to be installed. One thing I like to point out is that I often talk about the calculator space. The reason for that is that a lot of applications can almost be thought of as calculators. You’re doing some computation—some programming—and getting a result. Now, we’re…

We can also have something like an online calculator that uses client–server and client‑side programming. I don’t want to have to go back to the server every single time just to do a simple computation.

Client–server applications already existed back in Web 1.0. The reason we moved toward doing programming in places other than just the server is because the technology changed. The network changed. People started using mobile devices. All of that shifted how we build things. So the classic client–server application, where everything happens on the server, is…