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Author JScript and VBScript
joe

2005-06-01, 3:55 pm

Lately I've been surfing the MS knowledge pages to find XML related stuff,
and I've noticed that (of the two primary scripting languages used with ASP)
Jscript has way much more prominence that VBscript in the examples given.
Acutally, most of what I found was Jscript, C++ and Visual Basic.

Is MS pushing JScript as a preferred scripting language for their present
and future technologies? Not that I care, I like JScript. Just trying to see
where things are heading...


McKirahan

2005-06-01, 3:55 pm

"joe" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:57kne.17283$_r1.695329@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Lately I've been surfing the MS knowledge pages to find XML related stuff,
> and I've noticed that (of the two primary scripting languages used with

ASP)
> Jscript has way much more prominence that VBscript in the examples given.
> Acutally, most of what I found was Jscript, C++ and Visual Basic.
>
> Is MS pushing JScript as a preferred scripting language for their present
> and future technologies? Not that I care, I like JScript. Just trying to

see
> where things are heading...
>



JScript (JavaScript, ECMAScript) are often used client-side as they are
cross-browser compatible; whereas, VBScript requires an IE browser.


Bob Barrows [MVP]

2005-06-01, 3:55 pm

joe wrote:
> Lately I've been surfing the MS knowledge pages to find XML related
> stuff, and I've noticed that (of the two primary scripting languages
> used with ASP) Jscript has way much more prominence that VBscript in
> the examples given. Acutally, most of what I found was Jscript, C++
> and Visual Basic.
>
> Is MS pushing JScript as a preferred scripting language for their
> present and future technologies? Not that I care, I like JScript.
> Just trying to see where things are heading...


IE is the only browser that will run vbscript in client-side code ... If you
want cross-browser capabilities, you need to use javascript/jscript when
writing client-side code.

Bob Barrows

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