Re:X Window System Basics
by kaba0 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:06PM
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Well, the web can shift rendering between server and client side depending on the developers’ needs, but graphics is done mostly on the client side with their hardware. And while things tend to cycle between “centralized” then “edge computing” and back, graphics does make more sense to stuck to the client device, especially with ever bigger screen resolutions/color spaces/refresh rates paired with low-latency requirements.
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Re:X Window System Basics
by digitalsankhara on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:38AM
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Yes, of course, high performance graphics is better closer to the display hardware.
But I've felt that the terminology of server side rendering w.r.t. the web seems to imply something else in my mind. I agree with your comment but, to me, nothing actually gets rendered on the server - the code TO render in the client gets constructed on the server, e.g. a web page, partial page etc and sent to the client to be interpreted for display in a graphical environment (the browser).
Splitting hairs, technically a bitmap graphic could be said to be rendered remotely and it's display is simply a transfer function - sorry, I realise I'm been overly pedantic.