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Re: checking for audio playing ??? [message #183494 is a reply to message #183491] Mon, 28 October 2013 14:01 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 10/28/2013 8:11 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 10/27/13, 10:22 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Richard Damon wrote:
>>
>>> […] The one thing that is fairly certain is that the
>>> player will almost certainly NOT be written in PHP,
>>
>> That much is true.
>>
>>> as PHP is normally a server side language, and few clients will understand
>>> it.
>>
>> A common misconception. *No* programming language is “normally” either
>> “server-side” or “client-side”.
>>
>>
>> PointedEars
>>
>
> Clearly a falsehood. I would expect that at least 95% of PHP executions
> are done via mod-php or php-cgi in response to a http request, and thus
> be a "server side" operation. Yes, there are some invocations via cli
> doing local calculations, which would be neither server or client side.
> There are a few (comparatively) invocations of PHP scripts that will go
> out and make a http request to another page, and these could be
> considered "client side" if executed via cli, and are somewhat ambiguous
> if executed via mod-php or php-cgi (they are doing both sorts of
> actions, but since it is being done in response to an incoming request,
> this would normally be considered "server side")
>
> I know of no situation (but I suppose it is conceivable) where a user
> browser downloads a page, which contains "client side" PHP code, fires
> up a PHP interpreter, runs that code and gives the results to the user.
> This is what MOST people would think of a "client side" language, and it
> doesn't happen. Thus PHP in normally (not exclusively, as the cli script
> that accesses an external page is arguably a client side action, but
> relatively unusual) a server side language.
>
> In the same way most EMCAScripts (commonly called javascript) are run
> within a user browser, even if there does exist some other usages that
> might be considered "server side", so it would be a language that is
> normally client side.
>
> Note that "normal" does not mean exclusively, but only means in most
> common usage.
>

Richard, you should understand. "Pointed Head" lives in his own little
world, not at all related to that of the rest of us.

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