lammert - 12:48 pm on Apr 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

For almost all problems I decided to solve them in server side scripting because it is easier to maintain and test for me than a client side script would be. And not all browsers accept JavaScript and not all browsers may give exact the same expected result.

Another reason to go for server side scripting is that it poses no problem with search engines. JavaScript is effectively thrown away by search engines (although I have seen some instances in my logfile where Googlebot fetched my .js files so they might parse it in some way) The result of a server side script is plain (X)HTML which is easily interpreted by all search engines.