[Techtalk] why is Active X in web pages evil, but not Perl/PHP/Javascript?

[Elwing]

I'd amend that to say "server-side scripting can help avoid browser 
incompatibility"

You can still tell PHP to write javascript to send to the browser, you 
can also write badly mangled HTML with PHP/Perl.

It helps, but the output you send to the browser still needs to be 
compatible with all browsers.

Laura


Carla Schroder wrote:
> This is all very helpful, thank you! So it is correct to say that using 
> server-side scripting avoids browser compatibility problems? For example, I'm 
> continually running into Javascript problems when I'm Web surfing, and for 
> crappily-designed sites that are unreadable without it, well, I can't read 
> them. There are noticeable differences between browsers, for one example 
> Konqueror gags on Javascript pages that Mozilla renders without problems.
>