graywolf:
Javascript is a subset of Java which is an html scripting language.
Javascript is not a subset of Java. Despite their similar names, Javascript and Java are two totally separate things.
Indeed. These are two different programming languages.
I don't really know what you mean by "commercial" and "non-commercial" website builders, but my experience is that people that do websites for a living almost always use server side scripting techniques like PHP, ASP, JSP, CGI etc. They use a lot of Javascript as well, while home programmers more often use Javascript only, even to tasks that Javascript is ill suited, since in order to use server side scripting you'd have to have control over the server, which home programmers more seldom have.
I have to agree with this analysis. I went even farther as I chose to do all the scripting before the pages are uploaded to server. Mine is only static HTML. Though of course my site is very simple it is web design.
Problem with server-scripting is that at times one has to move to a different server which may or may not have this very scripting laguage available...
Home casual web programmer speaking...
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Boris
