What makes language be client side or server side

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Respected Sir/Mam,

I would like to know by what pattern we call any language server-side or client side

Client side like:- HTML,javascript etc.

Server side loke:- ASP,PHP,Java etc.

What makes the above language to be called as server side or client side

Thanks in advance

Posted 22-Nov-11 6:28am

Prashant Srivastava LKO

Updated 22-Nov-11 6:34am

Uday P.Singh

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Solution 6

Simplest explanation:

Client-side: the one used by the client/user.

Server-side: the one that is running on the server based on the request from the client.

Best regards,
Eduard

Posted 24-Nov-11 22:18pm

Eduard Lu

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check this link

http://tinsology.net/2009/06/client-side-vs-server-side-code/[^]

hope it helps!

Posted 24-Nov-11 22:26pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-22T08:10:00

A question itself does not seem to make much sense: what makes a language to be a client side or server side? Nothing, some historical reasons. If a language is, for example, imperative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming[^]), it could be potentially used on server side.

However, there is one important question about that. Why there are so many server-side languages and technologies, but Web client server-side is only JavaScript/ECMAScript? (I don't count VB as this language is not supported by many browsers.)

The answer is: this is apparent social phenomena which emerged "in response" to basic Web technology and HTTP protocol. This is a matter of "ecology" of developing technosphere, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_ecosystem[^].

Features of the client-site should be universal and supported on all platforms, but the content itself, including the script code, is loaded from the server. Different languages would strongly damage a simple compatibility principle of the Web: a Web application should work on nearly all platforms and browsers. And even though there are multiple incompatibilities, especially in rendering, accurately written Web applications are compatible with those platforms and major browsers. Due to this fact, multiple client-side scripting languages cannot survive; and by some historical reasons, only JavaScript survived. Exclusions like requirements to use incompatible things like ActiveX plug-ins, as it often happens, justify the rule.

Server-side belongs to a single company, or a single user of a Web hosting which usually provides some range of server-side technologies. The server-side remains completely invisible to the users of a Web application. Due to this fact, the selection of a server-side technology depends on an owner of a Web site, and the server-side languages and technologies flourished.

—SA

Uday P.Singh · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-22T06:39:00

Solution 1

The answer is in your question itself, the code which executes or run at client machine is called a client side(which do not require any server for execution), and the code which executes at server(such as IIS, Apache etc.) end are called server side.

hope it helps :)

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Posted 22-Nov-11 6:39am

Uday P.Singh

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Prashant Srivastava LKO 22-Nov-11 12:51pm

if HTML and javascript will run on server that will make them serverside

Uday P.Singh 22-Nov-11 13:04pm

why would they run at server?

fjdiewornncalwe 22-Nov-11 13:26pm

Don't look at server and client as necessarily being different computers. As server and client can both exist on the same computer. It is that Html and Javascript are executed by a browser as a client while the application code (i.e. asp.net, php) require a server environment to run.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Nov-11 13:53pm

HTML on server makes no sense at all as this language defined presentation on screen, rendering, etc. As to the server-side JavaScript, it does exist.
--SA

Abhinav S 22-Nov-11 13:03pm

5!

Uday P.Singh 22-Nov-11 13:06pm

thank you abhinav :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Nov-11 14:16pm

I voted 4. This is all good but does not really answer OP's question.
The question makes certain sense despite the fact it is not really correct.

Please see my answer and other comments.
--SA

Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-22T06:47:00

Solution 2

You can get some information here[^]. This has a good video to go through.

If you are looking at scripting, Client-side_scripting[^] and server side scripting[^].

Posted 22-Nov-11 6:47am

Abhinav S

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Prashant Srivastava LKO 22-Nov-11 12:59pm

Thanks Sir nice answer

Abhinav S 22-Nov-11 13:05pm

You are welcome.

Abhinav S 22-Nov-11 13:13pm

Thanks.

Uday P.Singh 22-Nov-11 13:05pm

very nice links abhinav 5ed :)

Abhinav S 22-Nov-11 13:07pm

Thank you Uday.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Nov-11 14:15pm

Yes, you explained the scripting on both sides, so what? How it related to languages?
I voted 4.

The question makes certain sense despite the fact it is not really correct.

Please see my answer.
--SA

Abhinav S 23-Nov-11 0:41am

Well the OP probably meant scripting languages?
I went through your answer as well.

Paulo Zemek · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-22T07:21:00

Solution 4

The simple answer is:
When a client computer access something on a server computer.
Which computer runs what?

C# can run in the server and in the client.
But by default, when doing a web-page, a C# code runs in the server, generates a page and maybe returns/generates a javascript.
Such javascript then runs in the client.

So, for that situation, C# is server side while javascript is client side.

Posted 22-Nov-11 7:21am

Paulo Zemek

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Nov-11 14:14pm

I vote only 4 because this answer does not answer the question about languages: what makes them applicable to server-side, client-side or both? The question makes certain sense despite the fact it is not really correct.

Please see my answer.
--SA

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