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I could think of a couple reasons:

* bandwidth bill.

* rich interactions without back-and-forth server trips.

* What's on client-side can technically be saved on client-side. Thus, making distributed setup possible. And that contributes to lower bandwidth bill.

* client hardware is no longer wimpy, why not use all those CPU cycles on users' laptop/iphone/ipad/android/etc.



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