Chapter 13. Multi-Client Support
The goal of most Web sites is to build something everyone can see; there are many different types of software used to visit Web pages. When building static Web sites, there is no option apart from building something that everyone hopefully can see. Dynamic Web sites alleviate this problem by allowing content to be generated at runtime, specific to a particular client. By taking advantage of dynamic functionality, it is possible to build something everyone can correctly see.
The term “multi-client” means that there are multiple different types of clients visiting a Web site. Most commonly, developers only think of a Web site as HTML and assume a client is using some software that can view HTML. However, this practice ...
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