Note that PerlScript can run embedded in a web page, so it could be written in Perl, not Java.

Most of it is in "PerlScript". Just a tiny bit of javascript that could easily be done in perlscript.

I just don't think I like "PerlScript"! It's fine if you are writing windows script components or otherwise using it through windows scripting host. But I think it was a bad mistake to make it useable through a web browser.

It's restricted to IE 4 or higher with Windows 95 or above. And it only runs if you install that option through the ActivePerl install. I also think that it's very dangerous! Much more so that clientside javascript. With "Perlscript" you access the filesystem, Win32::* modules, databases, all without the end user knowing. Thank God that ActiveState has set the default to "enable Local" and not "enable Internet\All"



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updated: added "s to bring more attention to the fact I am talking about "PerlScript" and not "Perl" - in the same way that "JavaScript" is not "Java"

In reply to Re: Re: Re: ActiveState's HTML documentation by $code or die
in thread ActiveState's HTML documentation by John M. Dlugosz

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