1.3.4. Client-Side vs. Server-Side

Client-side Interactivity

Client-Side Interactivity based on (Salvini 2006)

• Advantages
  • fast reaction time on client-side
  • independent of Internet connection
• Disadvantages
  • dependent on browser settings (e.g. denying of scripting or different interpretation of scripts)
  • limited possibility of file queries
  • appropriate only to small data amounts
  • difficult content updating

Server-side Interactivity

Server-Side Interactivity based on (Salvini 2006)

• Advantages
  • independent of client settings
  • appropriate to large data amounts
  • combination of several servers possible
  • session management, database / file queries etc. possible
  • easy content updating
• Disadvantages
  • slower (each interaction needs contact to the server)
  • need connection to the server
  • dependent on the Internet

Server-Side Interactivity or Client-Side Interactivity

Dependent on the interactions you want to make it is either better to implement client-side or server-side interactivity:

Server-Side Interactivity

• huge data amount is best stored in a database
• if it is important to have up-to-date data

Client-Side Interactivity

• small data amount
• independent of Internet
• if speed is important