At 04:13 PM 7/8/1998 -0700, Bill Houle so eloquently stated:
>At 03:29 PM 7/8/98 -0700, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>>
>>George, my point is that if an FP user knows nothing about FTP, and goes
>>through FP to 'publish' their web pages, I think they need the FP
>>extensions on the server for it to work.
>
>Nope. Extensions are only mandatory for certain server-side 'bots. When you
>press "Publish", a dialogue box pops up to ask which server. It then probes
>the server to determine if FP Extensions are available. If not, it drops to
>an FTP method using the "Web Publishing Wizard", querying for user/pass and
>destination dir.
>
>The advantage of Publishing vs generic FTP is that FP will automatically
>convert any proprietary doodads (special bots, presentation themes, etc)
>into generic HTML and images. It also memorizes the user/pass/dir settings
>for future sessions. Fire and forget. I am by no means a FP fan; it makes
>butt-ugly code and the expanded themes tend to bloat the site. But the
>built-in FTP is not too bad, and the process is pretty newbie-friendly.
>
Well you learn something new everyday. Here I thought you needed
FP extensions. Which is why I use FTP.
G
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