Huh?
Wireless bandwidth is right where dial up was around 10 years ago,
at least for long haul cellular. You're lucky to get 9600 baud.
My WiFi card is right where ethernet was 20 years ago, presuming
you get the 11mbits (an often dubious idea).
Don't mistake price/performance with actual bandwidth available for the
application you are running..
The best current arguments for client side fonts to me have always been
that fetching font metrics/information outweighs the advantages of server
side fonts in terms of bandwidth used, and that sophisticated apps always
need to grovel through serious font databases (to the point they've always
done client side fonts anyway). The other arguments for them are future:
the will make migration and replication of apps much easier indeed, as
the font availablility hassles are huge to enable those applications.
That doesn't mean we can freely ignore bandwidth issues.
RTT is often even more of an issue than bandwidth: here client
side generally wins hands down, avoiding the painfully slow
round trips.
On net, client side clearly wins, from the performance data I've seen
Keith put together, but we can't ignore either bandwidth or latency issues.
- Jim
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> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, David Dawes wrote:
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> > Today's many might not be tomorrow's many, and I think it would be
> > short-sighted to ignore bandwidth issues that may impact the
>
> Nothing in computer technology grew as fast as network bandwidth during
> the last 20 years!
>
> Regards,
> --martin
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