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1. ventur+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-04 01:07:16
Yes. Web applications were impossible before these libraries.
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2. jacque+s[view] [source] 2025-12-04 01:11:46
>>ventur+(OP)
No, they were not. They required a lot more round-trips to the server though, and rendering the results was a lot harder. But if you think of a browser as an intelligent terminal there is no reason why you couldn't run the application server side and display the UI locally, that's just a matter of defining some extra primitives. Graphical terminals were made first in the 60's or so.
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3. Levita+yp[view] [source] 2025-12-04 05:38:30
>>ventur+(OP)
If you truly believe that than we must really be moving backwards
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4. jeroen+Oe1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-04 13:16:59
>>Levita+yp
I think they have a point, before cgi-bin it was almost impossible to have a real web application. It took a decade for server-side rendering to fall out of favour. Flash websites and Gmail starting to become seriously interactive in the mid 2000s were the start of frontend-first web applications, but even those relied on the backend to provide them with an initial data set to make performance usable.
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