Comparing Browser Response to Active Client Pages

Any information stored at the sever and its analysis can be presented quickly to the user using ACP, independent of whether the Internet line is fast or slow. Only the first page may take some time to be downloaded through a slow Internet line.

Web pages are becoming voluminous because authors are putting a lot of script into them. This leads to long download times. With ACP, the downloads will not appear to take as long. 

If you understand your scripting language very well, you will pay less for hosting since the analysis will now be done by your script at the client and not by some program at the server.

ACP frees the server from work, thus increasing the overall speed of the World Wide Web. At the limit, if every client used ACP, a client would not have to wait too long for the server to serve other clients before it is served, since the processing would be done at the client and not at the server. In other words, the server would spend less time serving a client. One of the aims of N-Tier systems is to free the server from work. ACP also serves that purpose.

Recommendations

Here I answer the question of which browsers should your users have today for the kind of session you want. I also give any other recommendations necessary.

• For any browser, do not make calls from the window phase into the document phase and vice versa.

• If you want a session with the document phase incorporated into the window phase, your users should have Internet Explorer 6 and above.

• If you want only the window phase, your users should have Internet Explorer 6 and above, Netscape 8 and above or Opera 9 and above. You can tolerate Mozilla Firefox 2 and above.

• If you want only the document phase, your users should have Internet Explorer 6 and above or Mozilla Firefox and above.

With these recommendations, I hope that you will start using Active Client Pages.