Chapter 22. Client-Side Programming Basics

Client-Side Programming Basics

Client-side programming offers benefits that not only contribute to the level of scalability of your web application, but also can make a big difference in user satisfaction. When writing code for the client side, however, you are faced with a different challenge from server-side programming. Your code will be run by many different browsers from different vendors with different power and capabilities. As such, cross-browser code is the biggest issue and making your code executable in all browsers is the biggest challenge.

In this chapter, you learn the sort of problems that you will encounter when programming ...

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