[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm about to start using REBOL, and I have some questions.
>
> I will most of all use REBOL to minimize the amount of manual work
> constructiing web pages. However, this requires some kind of dynamic data
> handling. As far as I know there is only one way to do this:
>
> 1. Have REBOL reading data from a (text) database, processing unique web
> pages for each database entry.
>
> Am I right? I cannot have REBOL reading dynamic data, based on an entry ID
> number, into a HTML template as with Active Server Pages, right?
I don't know what you are exactly meaning by above :-(
But there is several ways of course:
- you can use REBOL as a CGI - with most webservers
- there is currently REBOL/Apache module in beta stage
if ASP means something like SSI (server side includes), well, you have to go
for Apache then imho.
> Also, I've got the impression that large and often used scripts should be
> downloaded by the user, rather than being embedded into the HTML document.
> Is this correct?
>
No, - you are mixing a few things here. What would such downloaded file be
good for for the user? It's webserver which is processing your request. Your
browser has to obtain clear HTML, JavaScript, Java code combination, no
browser can run REBOL code, as there is no REBOL plug-in for the browsers
available yet.
> Feel free to give me some feedback on this. I'm not an experienced
> programmer, but I would really like to learn REBOL if it suits my needs.
> Thanks!
>
If you are talking about MS only webserver, maybe other folks will answer your
questions better ...
Regards,
-pekr-
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martin Lindholm
>
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