[WEB4LIB] RE: Active Server Pages

[Raymond Wood]

Right - because ASP is a server-side technology, it should be accessible to 
any web browser.

Having said this, however, ASP is still a Windows-centric technology in the
sense that it was originally designed to run only on Windows and IIS
(Microsoft's webserver).

Third-party tools from companies like Chilisoft now offer solutions for
'cross-platform ASP', but the smart money is on open source technologies
like PHP.  PHP started off as a kind of 'ASP for Unix' but now supports
several platforms and runs on over a million web sites at last count.
For more information on PHP, see http://www.php.net/

Raymond Wood
Web Librarian

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:43:28PM -0700, Richard Wiggins wrote:
> Sure.  ASP is analogous to CGI; it's a server side solution for connecting a
> Web server to a database.  The browser should just see (and send) HTML and
> should not care.
> 
> You may be thinking of ActiveX "controls" which are client side and
> Microsoft specific.  Native Netscape wasn't built to handle ActiveX controls
> (but some finagling can be done with plugins).
> 
> /rich
> 
> ------Original Message------
> From: Jim Barrentine <jkb at ix.netcom.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: September 1, 2000 9:52:16 PM GMT
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Active Server Pages
> 
> 
> Do any browsers other than IE support Active Server Pages?
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
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> 
> James K. Barrentine
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