> What is a good rule of thumb for when to use CFML and when to use
> Javascript
> when both will accomplish the same thing? We develop management
> information
> reports and applications for a very large intranet which has
> standardized on
> MSIE 4/5 and Pentium PII/III PCs with WinNT 4.0 and 32 - 128MB RAM. These
> applications require a lot of manipulation of the numbers returned from
> queries to format them into reports (summing, grouping, etc). Is this the
> kind of thing that should be done on the client machine with Javascript
> where possible or should I do it with CFML? I can see an argument
> for taking
> the load of processing the answer set into a report off of the web server
> (CFML) and dropping it down to the client (Javascript) where possible.
> Thoughts?
Calculations should always be done at the time you run the queries - also,
if you don't know whether the viewers will have the latest browsers, what
happens if JavaScript is disabled?
Philip Arnold
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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