Is the Browser the Side for Templating?

Abstract

Browser-side templating (BST) is a valid alternative for Web development, even when it comes to building accessible applications. BST processes templates in the browser using a JavaScript-coded engine, providing significant performance improvements and making model–view separation a reality. However, it also has significant drawbacks. BST’s dependence on JavaScript affects its accessibility and hides the delivered pages’ content from search engines, hampering Web visibility. The authors confront this dilemma and propose a technique that lets BST be accessible and semantically crawlable, while preserving its advantages