The author summarizes the history of the various client-server architectures and proceeds to review current options and limitations. He recommends using DOM to enrichen the user experience, providing flexibility and control which have not been possible before.
Ofcourse, this relies on new CSS features as well as browser scripting in Javascript or any equivalent language supporting DOM.
Unfortunately, we have not arrived there yet and the two most common browsers, Netscape and IE, do not support all these features. But they will!
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