L.D wrote:
> Since it's apparent that html without javascript can recognize a
>browser and it's version [how else would Arachne home page know I'm
>running Arachne in latest version] why do you need js for that?
HTML can't do that, Arachnes pages are (generally not all) are .shtml files
so the server checks what browser the user has (this info along with mime
types it can handle is always sent AFAIK) with a program on some of the pages.
The reason to use JS instead is that the logic is put out on the users
machine instead thereby making it possible for:
a. "anyone" to use it (as long as they have JS in their browser) - no need
to learn some programming language (hmm... and the diffrence when it comes
to learning is?)
b. get more users on the same server since it doesn't have to figure these
things out
IMO the best sollution would be to redirect the users that have JS to
specific pages and let the others use the servers CPU to figure these
things out.
>And as
>for timezone, just how does js arrange to do that? Does it ask the
>calling computer what time it is and expect an answer it can understand?
Yes. The time is in a standard way (dates are not as I earlier mentioned),
from the top of my head I can't remember how to get the timezone however,
but it's probably in that same object.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
