posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:20 PM
by
anoras
Chubby Client term slowly getting adopted
When I conceptualized smarter web clients I coined the term “Chubby Client” to describe such applications. At the time, the only other paper using the term was an old IBM paper on terminal clients. Lately, I have seen the term used in around the blogosphere. Longhorn evangelist Jerry Mazner recently wrote a blog post about different Smart Clients and smarter web clients entitled “Smart Client”. Scott Hanselman used the term last year when he wrote about my JavaScript XmlSerializer and many others have followed in his footsteps.
Earlier this week the editor-in-chief of a major programming journal asked me if I was interested in reworking my post about Google Suggest into a proper article. This goes to show that aided by Google’s innovative betas, Microsoft’s cool MySpaces and similar “smarter” web clients the “Chubby Client” concept is gaining interest. Now I need your help to make the term "Chubby Clients" common place.