This morning I came across this jQuery library and it got me to thinking a little bit. All of the web sites that I currently have coded ( I don't really do the design) tend to use .NET or PHP that is mashed up with some Javascript here and there.
I'm wondering why we tend to still use PHP and .NET except for things that are absolutely on the back end. Why would I use .NET or PHP to manipulate elements in a page when I can just use JavaScript?
Maybe the web community should start developing pages that are JavaScript run and call PHP/.NET WebServices. That puts all the processing for display on the JS and all the data manipulation and retrieval where it should be - on the server.
Any thoughts?
