>Another thought on the topic of client side scripting is that I don't care how good somebody is with JScript or VBScript - client side scripting is a real chore. The GuestBook demo I mentioned earlier in the thread is a good example. The amount of code in that html page is fairly minimal - about 50 lines of app code, plus a few cut and paste functions which add proably another 50-75.
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>But because of lack of a decent scritp develepment environment that little app took a few hours to build (not counting the UI, which I cheated out of the West Wind DHTML Form renderer from a VFP form)... Building that same code entirely on the server would have taken 10 minutes. Performance of the XML app is definitely better and more lightweight on the bandwidth - but it's not earthshaking. In fact if I run my full server side piece and the XML piece side by side the performance difference is almost not noticeable other than the flicker of the entire form redrawing.
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>I'm a fan of offloading things to the client - but realize that client side processing in script code has developement issues, and security issues since script code is visible to the client in most cases.

So, Rick you would suggest not to bother with client proccessing?
Mark