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    Isn't that pure imagination? You will possibly have to change your server-side stuff when clients change, as you wont get round generating HTML/JS/CSS at some point. Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 7:07
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    One more thing, 'Client-side web development is strongly coupled with web browsers' - Web-technologies are official standards, as long as you stick with it you are implementing a standard, not coupling your application to a browser. While not too long ago this was not really true, it seems to be at the moment. Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 7:12
  • First of all read how some browsers just don't follow the standards (Internet Explorer for example). SOme things have changed over time, but even with IE7 I had horrible problems due to its own way of interpreting what I wrote. Also read a few articles about cross-browser compatibilities. This issue would not exist if every web browser vendor would follow the standards. Second of all if the data set changes, you have to change your business logic, that's obvious.But when new IE gets shipped and you have to rewrite around 30% of code just to make the code work on new browser - something's wrong Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 7:16
  • Of course I know how painful it is and was to make everything work in every browser. But this work has to be done regardless server- or client-side (as you have to use a browser in the end anyway). I certainly agree on your second point. However, I don't see 30% to be rewritten. Some alterations possibly are needed, but I doubt it is as bad as in the old days. On the other hand you have to redo everything based on the service layer, if you want to replace your server-side stack. So you are VERY tightly coupled to your server side implementation. Possibly from the top of the UI to the model. Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 7:43