i see where CGI is a general term which can refer to many gateway program
facilities, incor****ating a server, a client, programming language, and
some
automated task which needs to be reckoned with. However, the
implementation
of a scripting engine, within a browser such as Netscape or Internet
Explorer, does away with questions of what language to use, and what
server
(facilities) to use, and specifies browser issues to be wary about. Where
CGI is not really an implementation, but sort of a goal..
Active Scripting (formerly known as ActiveX Scripting) is the technology
used in Windows OS to implement component-based scripting sup****t. It is
based on COM (more precisely OLE Automation) and allows installation of
additional scripting engines in the form of COM modules.
Active Scripting technologies were first released in 1996, with the
Internet
Explorer 3.0 and IIS 3.0 products.
Using one of the programming languages for the scripting engine (script
language) the purposes of CGI are addressed, and a disclaimer i.e., best
viewed in Netscape X.X explains the technology being offered. I was
thinking about trade offs but the scripting engine will perform most 3GL
programming routines i.e., compiling, interpretting, interface. It is
only
an improvement to the CGI outlook, of traditional client/server work. The
scripting engine even allows combinations of languages within a script
such
as embedded ASP code within an HTML file. And the 4GL implementations
such
as the Microsoft FrontPage feedback form, and other standard forms with
FrontPage, are models of the CGI functionality.
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> As i have now read and reviewed .. there are two types of connections to
> data, one is by the object, the other is by the attribute. I see you
have
> suggested a shopping cart, where the contents are retained until the art
is
> emptied, even between sessions. that is a good feature at
www.powells.com
> an online bookstore. i see wherestate is im****tant. i am myself trying
to
> locate the instructions for registering a CLSID (class) so that i can
try
to
> call a program using CGI. but that is one of many programming issues.
i
> use vbscript to an extent, but just now working on the design for a
general
> purpose website templete which can pass variables, in different uses
i.e.,
> overnite updates, read-only access, write-only access, chain of links
from
> earlier pages viewed, vertical projects organization, horizontal data
> structure, OLE containers, data warehouse, terminal access (telnet),
> scripts, publi****ng forms, machine systems, human behavior, television
and
> opera houses, handels messiah.. for the last 10 years was working to get
to
> where i am... basically a student
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