Web Server scripting

[Murdin999]

I'm recently started a Web development course at my college, and i just got my first assignment, but one of the questions totally confuses me:

Real life examples of websites that are using both client and server side scripting explaining the benefits and drawbacks of such Web technologies

So i read that as sites that use both Client Side and Server Side scripting and then list the pros and cons of doing this. To the life of me i can't actually think of any, obviously getting the advantages of both is a obvious benefit, but after that I'm just stuck. Any ideas?

 

[GravyMonster]

Don't really want to do your work for you, so I'll just suggest having a Google for server side form validation, and then client side form validation

 

[A.N.Other]

Have you thought about using google at all? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=client-side+scripting+server-side+scripting

The obvious examples are PHP for server-side and javascript for client-side.

 

[V4NT0M]

Nearly all popular sites use server side and client side scripting.

 

[Xelene]

gmail

 

[m4rkw7]

Client side: Javascript
Server side: PHP

One thing i will see if that for form that use Javascript for validation, you can turn Javascript of in your browser = no validation.

 

[AJK]

I'm recently started a Web development course at my college, and i just got my first assignment, but one of the questions totally confuses me:

Real life examples of websites that are using both client and server side scripting explaining the benefits and drawbacks of such Web technologies

So i read that as sites that use both Client Side and Server Side scripting and then list the pros and cons of doing this. To the life of me i can't actually think of any, obviously getting the advantages of both is a obvious benefit, but after that I'm just stuck. Any ideas?

I think you are misreading the question slightly and focusing too much on the word "both". The question is asking you to give examples of, and discuss the pros and cons of, client side and server side technologies. There's no need to focus specifically on sites which use both - just pick a site which uses a lot of client side scripting, or some particularly interesting script, to talk about client side, and the same for server side. The differences between these two scripting methods are (1) obvious if you understand the fundamental differences between the server and client environments; and (2) easily researchable, so I won't go into them.

Also, there are more examples of client side than just javascript, and more examples of server side than just PHP!