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Re: checking for audio playing ??? [message #183494 is a reply to message #183491]

Mon, 28 October 2013 14:01

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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		checking for audio playing ??? By: Mr Oldies on Sun, 27 October 2013 14:58
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sun, 27 October 2013 15:45
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Mr Oldies on Sun, 27 October 2013 16:01
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Denis McMahon on Sun, 27 October 2013 17:53
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Mr Oldies on Sun, 27 October 2013 18:24
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Doug Miller on Sun, 27 October 2013 18:38
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Richard Damon on Sun, 27 October 2013 18:43
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 28 October 2013 02:22
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 28 October 2013 09:49
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Richard Damon on Mon, 28 October 2013 12:11
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 28 October 2013 13:37
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 28 October 2013 14:01
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 29 October 2013 19:10
		server-side vs.client-side (was: checking for audio playing ???) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Tue, 29 October 2013 20:45
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 30 October 2013 00:54
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 30 October 2013 02:18
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 30 October 2013 02:31
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Wed, 30 October 2013 08:20
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 30 October 2013 18:04
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 30 October 2013 18:58
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 30 October 2013 19:54
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 30 October 2013 20:21
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 30 October 2013 20:55
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 30 October 2013 21:07
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Thu, 31 October 2013 08:40
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Christoph Michael Bec on Thu, 31 October 2013 22:03
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 01 November 2013 00:38
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 02 November 2013 16:57
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 02 November 2013 18:36
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 02 November 2013 18:44
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Denis McMahon on Sun, 03 November 2013 00:28
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Doug Miller on Sat, 02 November 2013 19:01
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 November 2013 01:40
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Michael Vilain on Fri, 01 November 2013 16:53
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 01 November 2013 17:53
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Fri, 01 November 2013 21:10
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 01 November 2013 22:25
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Fri, 01 November 2013 22:29
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 02 November 2013 00:37
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 02 November 2013 00:26
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 01 November 2013 18:37
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Stefan+Usenet on Fri, 01 November 2013 19:19
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Sat, 02 November 2013 00:24
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 02 November 2013 16:46
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Richard Damon on Sat, 02 November 2013 19:41
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Sat, 02 November 2013 21:37
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 03 November 2013 09:48
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Sun, 03 November 2013 10:28
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 05 November 2013 10:15
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Tue, 05 November 2013 12:47
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 03 November 2013 13:16
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Sun, 03 November 2013 16:00
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Chuck Anderson on Sun, 03 November 2013 21:52
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Chuck Anderson on Mon, 04 November 2013 06:19
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Tim Streater on Mon, 04 November 2013 18:02
		Re: server-side vs.client-side By: Arno Welzel on Wed, 30 October 2013 08:09
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 28 October 2013 15:23
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 28 October 2013 16:56
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Doug Miller on Sun, 27 October 2013 18:22
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Beauregard T. Shagnas on Mon, 28 October 2013 13:49
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Scott Johnson on Mon, 28 October 2013 18:36
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 28 October 2013 19:02
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Richard Damon on Tue, 29 October 2013 01:29
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 29 October 2013 11:18
		cr By: Richard Damon on Fri, 01 November 2013 03:21
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		Re: cr By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 03 November 2013 14:34
		Re: cr By: Richard Damon on Sun, 03 November 2013 20:18
		Re: checking for audio playing ??? By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 29 October 2013 19:12
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