Re: suggestion for Microsoft

From: Doug G (nospam_at_frcnospam.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:44:52 -0400

As far as I know, all forms require some sort of scripting engine to be
"installed" on the hosting web server. Some use what are called "CGI
scripts", others use things like PHP, but they all require server-side
execution. Comparing them to Javascript is not a valid comparison --
Javascript is something that is executed by your browser in the context of
the PC that the browser is running on. Even something as simple as a form to
send email requires a script on the server, executed by a script engine of
some sort, to take the parameters entered on the form, put them into an
email message, and send the email message out using the web connection from
the server.

The big issue with Frontpage is that it does lock you into using the
Frontpage support software on the server side, making your web site less
transportable to other servers or to other web development tools. For
myself, I use a different web development package that lets me utilize any
scripting package that the server happens to support.

  Doug G

"Mike Kelly" <michaeltkelly@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23MUIJMaIEHA.2836@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have a suggestion for Microsoft regarding front page.
>
> You should scrap front page extensions and create some kind of independent
> code that could be uploaded to a server on along with all other pages
> created by front page which would handle forms.
>
> This code should not be dependant on anything that an isp would need to
> install on their servers -- kind of like javascript.
>

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