[hnmonkey]

Is rendering the right word here? It doesn't feel like it is to me. I thought rendering was the final step in taking a DOM and turning it into something that is shown on the screen. Basically, the job of the browser. Based on your logic you're saying that before now rendering was happening on the server, but that doesn't make sense.

Edit: I thought about it and it seems like generating is the right word and rendering is still just something that happens on the client-side no matter what.