ASP is a method of
delivering dynamic content to clients. It's particularly effective in both LAN
and WAN situations and is the corner-stone of many office intra/extranets across
the globe.
When a user requests a page
from a web site. the ASP page is loaded and executed on the server (like a
program) and the user is then sent the output of the ASP page.
The ASP Container
Within the ASP page,
scripting languages like JavaScript and VBScript can be used to perform
calculations on the server and return varying results to the client.
Server-Side Vs
Client-Side
The beauty of ASP pages is
that these scripts can be executed on the server, rather than the client. This
means that as long as we are aware of what languages the server can handle, we
no longer have to worry about client-side compatibility like we would with
client-side JavaScript and VBScript.
The Best of Both Worlds
I've used JavaScript for
parts of this web site that were client-side (because Netscape doesn't support
VBScript) and I've used VBScript for the server-side code because it does
support it.
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