Application structure question

[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
@Colin --

This one could stand a little debating too then my friend...

Much better than relying on the client to load it. Much, much better.

I respect your opinion, but it is just that. We all have opinions about these things. As I am in complete disagreement with you.

Use of the client to make page requests or making requests for a particular "resource" is natural on the web. That is what they do after all. Request resources referenced by URIs located at URLs.

@shaffick -- I think using the client to request resources from the server is a completely acceptable way to accomplish your task. In CI terms that means you are calling a controller method from the client and returning a view partial directly to the client. That makes folks nervous here. Since you're doing so with JavaScript, we'll catch all kinds of flack because only between 96.7%-99.6% of all internet users today have JavaScript turned on. But I'm with you on this. You and I can be the rebels ;-)

Client/Server architectures out date all of us here. We live in a client server architecture.

I still like you Colin %-P

Randy