Re: Inline frames, die, die, die (aka please help!)

From: Thomas A. Rowe (tarowe_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:03:42 -0500

John,

The reason my preference is the Windows platform and for scripting ASP/VBScript, is that I came from
the Bell System, where Unix was used and I truly disliked the command line interface and VI and
EMACS (sp?) editors.

Anyway, for new developers, etc. it all depends on what is supported by their web host, unless they
are willing to switch host or hosting packages. I would tend to go with a host that supports either
Windows or Unix/Linux but not one that supports both, as the knowledge for supporting one should be
better than the knowledge available trying to support both OSs.

All of the current scripting languages can do the same thing, just by different coding methods, and
all are available on both platforms, but do have platform limitation. Example you can run
ASP/VBScript on Unix/Linux, but you can not use Access or Excel as a data source.

One advantage to using ASP/VBScript/Access (Windows Hosting), is that you will find a lot more
support here in this newsgroup, then you will find for PHP and any other scripting language.

Plus you can use the FP database components, which I don't really recommend for other than very
basic things. Note: There are folks that have done so amazing things/workaround with the FP database
components, but it takes a lot more time and effort, then if you learn to hand code to begin with. 

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"John" <use_net@puresilver.org> wrote in message news:fdlv01haqjbs75p8t2rrsskdatndtbbq8o@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:35:29 -0500, "Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>The only time saving would be that you load a header, footer and sidebar once, however every 
>>content
>>page with associate images or other external content will still take time to load, and in general 
>>if
>>the header and footer and sidebar having limited graphics or other external content then you are
>>only saving a few seconds overall after the initial frameset loads.
>>
>>JavaScript/DHTML and framesets are both support in all currently used graphical browsers. Java
>>Applets are not widely supported today.
>>
>>Server-side scripting is browser independent.
>
> Thomas,
>
> I'm well aware of your preference in this area. Let me ask
> this, if you were just starting in web development which
> language/scripting would you use ? As I recall you us VB Script, right
> ? I've been reviewing PHP but frankly I just don't think I have the
> time to become proficient at it.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   John S. Douglas, Photographer -  http://www.puresilver.org
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