You Used JavaScript to Write WHAT?

The key to understanding when (and when not) to deploy JavaScript has as much to do with the intent of the target application as it does JavaScript itself. Originally published in CIO Magazine in January 2008, framing the then-live debate over Web 1.0 pages versus Web 2.0 applications. The full article PDF is preserved as a sample download. Holds up as an artifact of the moment Ajax was the new thing, Gmail was the marquee example, and JavaScript’s role on the server was still years away.