server-side JS

[mattover-matter]

where can I learn this? Will this make my pages slow? and.....Does this hide source code (like on other server-side languages)

[beetle]

Forget about server-side JS. It's either either used to drive ASP (normally VBScript is used) or is pretty much a non-used technology as defined here (http://oradb1.jinr.ru/netscape/wssja/jsserv.htm).

[mattover-matter]

oh, so nothing I will be learning then, huh? :-}

[beetle]

Pretty much. I don't know of or have talked to anybody that actually uses/applies it.

[liorean]

There's pretty large community of ASP-using-JScript. Serverside javascript (netscape version) is pretty much dead, though. There's far more powerful serverside languages, for far more wide-spread servers.

[Vladdy]

When I do ASP coding I write most of it in JScript resorting to VBScript functions when there is an implementation deficiency with ASP object (like (for item in object) statement)

[beetle]

I stand corrected (in regards to teh JScript-ASP).

I use PHP anyways. :D

[mattover-matter]

ISn't asp a microsoft language (which I seem to find most people says that is why it is junk?????) PHP/ASP do not seem much different from javascript itself, maybe a week to learn? But, I don't know anything
:rolleyes:

[liorean]

Hmm, there's a difference that I don't really know what to call here:

PHP is a technology for serverside scripting as well as a language.

ASP is a technology for serverside scripting that can be used with multiple languages: JScript, VBScript, C#, C/C++, PerlScript etc.

JSP is a technology for use with the Java language on J2EE platform.

CGI is a general interface that can be used as a serverside scripting technology together with most (if not all) languages that can run on POSIX system.

Serverside Javascript is a technology for the JavaScript language for the ONE platform.

[beetle]

PHP is a language
Java is a language
CGI is an interface
ASP is a framework