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Client Site Vs Server Side

The document discusses various client-side and server-side programming languages and technologies used for web development. Client-side programming includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash, and is interpreted by web browsers. Server-side programming connects web pages to databases and other systems, and common languages include Perl, ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, PHP, and ASP.NET.

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Client Site Vs Server Side

The document discusses various client-side and server-side programming languages and technologies used for web development. Client-side programming includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash, and is interpreted by web browsers. Server-side programming connects web pages to databases and other systems, and common languages include Perl, ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, PHP, and ASP.NET.

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Client-side Programming

 Client-side programming involves writing code that is interpreted by a browser


such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox or by any other Web client such as a
cell phone.

 The most common languages and technologies used in client-side programming


are HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Macromedia Flash.

HTML
 HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the language behind most Web pages.

 The language is made up of elements that describe the structure and format of the
content on a Web page.

Cascading Style Sheets


 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is used in HTML pages to separate formatting and
layout from content.

 Rules defining color, size, positioning and other display aspects of elements are
defined in the HTML page or in linked CSS pages.

JavaScript
 JavaScript is used to make HTML pages more dynamic and interactive.

 It can be used to validate forms, pop up new windows, and create dynamic effects
such as dropdown menus and image rollovers.

Dynamic HTML
 Dynamic HTML is not a language in and of itself, but rather refers to code that
uses JavaScript to manipulate CSS properties on the fly.

Ajax
 The term AJAX was originally an acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript And
XML," but is now used much more broadly to cover all methods of
communicating with a server using JavaScript.
 The main purpose of Ajax is to provide a simple and standard means for a web
page to communicate with the server without a complete page refresh.

Adobe Flash
 Over the past few years, Flash has taken the Web by storm. At the time of this
writing, according to Adobe's website, more than 97% of computers connected to
the internet have Flash Player installed. Flash Player is a plug-in to Internet
Explorer and other Web browsers. It enables browsers to display dynamic
graphical Web pages .

 Flash pages are called movies and they are created using special software (also
called Flash). ActionScript, a language similar to JavaScript, is used to manipulate
Flash objects to make movies more interactive.

Server-side Programming
 Server-side programming involves writing code that connects Web pages with
databases, XML pages, email servers, file systems and other systems and software
accessible from the Web server.

 The most common server-side languages and programming frameworks are Perl,
ColdFusion, Active Server Pages, JavaServer Pages, PHP and ASP.NET.

Perl
 Perl was the first server-side language to become popular in Web development.
 Originally derived from C, its relative simplicity and strengths in file and text
manipulation and the fact that it is open source made it a good choice for writing
CGI scripts.

 Although Perl is still widely used, it is not as popular a choice for new Web
projects.

ColdFusion
 ColdFusion, created by Allaire (now owned by Adobe), is arguably the simplest
of all server-side languages.
 It is tag-based, which makes it look a lot like HTML and easier for client-side
programmers to understand than some of the other choices. Because of the
relative ease with which it is written, ColdFusion is sometimes assumed not to be
so powerful.
 In fact, ColdFusion code is compiled to Java bytecode, which means the pages
run quickly. Web developers can accomplish virtually any required task using the
ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML).

 ColdFusion can easily be integrated with Java applications, developers have the
choice of using Java to extend ColdFusion applications.

Active Server Pages


 Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) is a framework that allows developers to
write server-side pages in many scripting languages.
 Hhowever, VBScript and JScript are the only commonly used choices.

 ASP became popular quickly and sites with pages ending in .asp are now all over
the Web.

 It is not as simple as ColdFusion, but it has the huge advantage of being built in
to Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

 ASP has been replaced by Microsoft with ASP.NET, an architecture that is much
more similar to Java's than to traditional ASP's.

JavaServer Pages
 As with ColdFusion MX, pages written using JavaServer Pages (JSP) are
compiled into Java servlets.
 JSP pages are made up of tags (as in ColdFusion) and scriptlets (as in ASP).

 It has replaced Java Servlets as the most popular choice for Java coders writing
Web applications.

ASP.NET
 Microsoft's ASP.NET is not a language, but a framework for writing Web sites
and software.
 Like ColdFusion and JSP (and unlike traditional ASP) ASP.NET pages are
precompiled, so they run faster than traditional ASP pages do.

 ASP.NET pages can be written in many languages, but the most popular are C#
(pronounced C-sharp) and Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET).

PHP
 Like Perl, PHP is open source.
 It has rapidly become a popular alternative to the proprietary languages such as
ColdFusion and ASP.NET.

 PHP is lightweight, relatively simple to learn and runs on almost all commonly
used Web servers.

 A nice feature is that it can be integrated with both Java and COM.

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