CLIENT - SIDE PROCESSING

Question 1

What is client - side processing?

Answer 1

• Uses the client’s computer to process web page data in data exchange
• The interactivity on a web page is downloaded and processed using the client’s processor

Question 2

Web scripts?

Answer 2

• Included in the code of the web page and run when the page is loaded into the user’s browser

Question 3

How web pages work?

Answer 3

• When a client requests a web page, the web server downloads a copy of it onto the client’s computer

Question 4

Benefits of client - side processing?

Answer 4

SPEED - faster because the data is on the client and does not need to move across the internet
SECURITY - Data cannot be intercepted on the client in the way it can when it moves across the internet

Question 5

Disadvantages of client - side processing?

Answer 5

BROWSER-SPECIFIC - different browsers process scripts in different ways, therefore the web page owner cannot be sure how their web page owner will appear on screen
COMPUTER SPEED - the web page owner is reliant on the processor speed of the client’s computer, so if that is slow the processing will be slow