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Does it have to be Javascript?

Can't it be done with other scripting languages (such as VBScript or PerlScript -- hey , that's an idea!)?

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Re: Re: Re: empty submit
by dreadpiratepeter (Priest) on Mar 22, 2004 at 14:48 UTC
    Yes it could, but since the lion's share of client side scripting is done in JS, I thought it the appropriate answer. (Particularly when Perl is the server-side language. I would think that most people using VBScript would also be using ASP).

    I've been doing web work since the web began and I have never once been involved in or even heard of the project that uses PerlScript for the client side.


    -pete
    "Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."
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      You are quite right (and I ++ your comment)~. Perlscript is probably installed on too few systems to be a viable alternative for JS.

      It seems a pity though. Somehow I will have to convince our IT-dept to install PerlScript on all our machines. I can then do all kinds of *nice* things to our people's machines when they visit our intranet's webpages.<object codetype='audio/basic' data='maniacal_laughter.wav' />

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