[Tutor] Re: CGI

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jul 20 23:46:15 CEST 2004


> > What is vbscript?
>
>
>  It's Microsoft's Visual Basic, scripting edition. It is activeX
enabled.
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vbstutor.asp

And only works on Internet Explorer on PCs running Windows.
No good for Mac users of IE or users of any other browser.
That's why most client side scripting is done in JavaScript
- it works on almost any platform (unless it uses Active X
in which case it is as broken as VBScript...)

Alan G



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