Dual-Side Templating for 2010
Written by on February 15th, 2008 in Ajax News.
Michael Mahemoff is bullish on templating that runs all over the shop, and explained the progression in his Dual-Side Templating piece:
- c. 1995: Server-Side Templating. This is the standard templating used in Java’s JSP, Perl’s Mason, PHP, ASP, etc. ie some html code with <?= “language” ?> code embedded in it.
- c. 2005: Browser-Side Templating. This is an Ajax pattern where you have a block of HTML that includes some custom syntax (e.g. <% ${foo.bar} %>) which are then processed via Javascript.
- c. 2010: Dual-Side Templating A single template is used on both browser and server, to render content wherever it’s appropriate - typically the server as the page loads and the browser as the app progresses. For example, blog comments. You output all existing comments from the server, using your server-side template. Then, when the user makes a new comment, you render a preview of it - and the final version - using browser-side templating.
Source: Ajaxian
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