Have a question for you server-savvy types out there:
I'm working on an intranet project which uses large amounts of
Javascript. At present I have things structured such that each
of the several hundred pages on the site has an identical head
section, which loads seven different external scripts. These
control drop-down menus, user-customization options and so on.
This is all working fine, but my client is of the opinion that
it would be preferable to generate each page on-the-fly using
SSI; i.e., the head would be a separate file that would be
called with an !--#include. His main objective is to make the
body of each page easier to maintain, which I suppose it
would. But it's my (quite possibly faulty) belief that
overall this would slow down the site's operation, what with
the constant requests to the server engendered by the SSIs.
My contention is that Netscape 4.x (the browser used by the
department in question) by default caches JC scripts called
externally, meaning that they will only have to be requested
once from the server, and then each page of the site will be
loaded as needed. Whereas with SSI there would be at least two
requests for every page, one for the body and the other for
the included header. Or am I off-base here?
As it is the head on each page only runs to about 25 lines of
code, since the various scripts are separate entities called
externally... it's my view that it's better to leave each page
a self-contained entity, and dispense with the SSI stuff.
Opinions?
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
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