Feed Reader: Should It Always Be Client Side?

Question

Should a browser based Feed Reader always use something on the client side, like Javascript?

UPDATE: I mean, specifically, for the Parsing of RSS. If you can offload it to the browser, it seems almost irresponsible to make your server do the work. Still, there are plenty of advantages in my particular situation to doing it server side. So I'm just wondering: is it blasphemy, do you think, to make your server do the parsing instead of jquery or the like?

Answer 1

meh, it depends :-P There's nothing wrong with a pure navigation/post based system that uses plain html and forms. There's also nothing wrong with sprinkling a little bit of ajax and other client-side features where appropriate. It all depends on what you need to support in terms of client.

Answer 2

Google Reader is one example of an RSS reader that parses the RSS on the server. I can't see any reason why you'd have to do that processing on the client