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Websites are clients, too

Post by msingleton » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 9:53 PM UTC

The site redesign and recently launched website features like the homepage map, lists, and notifications, have brought them closer together. With these features we’ve begun consuming our own public APIs, via JavaScript, directly from the website.

Websites are clients, too
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Re: Websites are clients, too

Post by eugenejen » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

Glad I am not the only one who exploits similar solution to solve problem for mobile/ajax on server side!

One question here is for generating search engine friendly web pages without javascript, do you guys use server side requests internally to api to get data?

Re: Websites are clients, too

Post by o1iver » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 10:59 PM UTC

This has been discussed so many times now! It's not news! In a world where content is consumed on different devices with different "views" I think this is a necessity.

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