--- Thomas Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shane, I'd like to follow up on this: > > On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes. The installer will put the web app in the Program >> Files directory and a shortcut will be added to the menu and >> desktop. The shortcut will both launch the web app and launch >> the user's browser once the web app has started. It's not >> hard to do. An icon in the system tray will indicate the web >> app is running and give the user the opportunity to stop it.
That means, though, that you require the user to have a web server installed on his computer (either because your installer put it there, or because he already had one). This brings me back to a comment I made several days ago: sure, I *can* install a LAMP application on my Powerbook, but I don't think it's reasonable to require every user of the system to do so. > So when I open my browser and view source for a given page, I > will see <form action=" what? > > Expanding my mind here, what are the known species of form > action scripts, and which are most amenable to Windows > deployment? > > PHP CGI ASP JSP In general, there are: - Web server modules (mod_perl, mod_php, ASP, ISAPI plugins and the like) - naturally very dependent on a specific HTTP server - CGI scripts (can be written in a wide variety of languages, Perl and PHP being common, but Python, Ruby, C, Delphi and many others are also used) - generally portable to multiple HTTP servers, so long as the language will run on your platform of choice. Don't try to do Delphi-based CGI on Unix. - Programs that include their own custom HTTP servers - and whatever Java uses. Java is weird that way :) _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
