Re: Netscape help required - correct message

Hi Henry,

There is no copyright on the script since it was cobbled together and
adjusted from other sources (multiple).

You are correct: you can use HOME.HTML or HOME.HTM or HOME.SHTML or
HOME.CFML or HOME.CFM (or HOME.ASP), or any other properly named webdocument
as the target of the script.

There is no "file://--"... that was an autoconversion by either my mail
program, your's, or possibly one of hundreds of systems in between. It
should actually be a closing "hider" with the appropriate comments, the same
kind used in all your other scripts (or those on other pages). The actual
closer is as follows (just remove the exess spaces):

    /    /    -    -    >

And just to be clear about the script, I have it set to work as such:

root/               (contains entry page with script)
root/html3/       (HTML-3 files)
root/html4/       (HTML-4 files)

If you want to use different directory names, simply change them as
appropriate in the script. Root is the domain or site root, and not the name
of an actual directory.

For clarification, there *IS* a difference between Java and JavaScript. Java
is basically a small, self-contained program. One of the biggest uses for
JAVA APPLETS is a web-based chat program. JAVASCRIPT, on the other hand, is
a web-based scripting language, and on of its biggest uses is for
image-swapping mouseovers, to give navigation bars a more dynamic
appearance. There are, of course, other uses for both languages, but they
ARE different and are NOT interchangeable. The script I gave you is
JAVASCRIPT. JAVA would have to be programmed (usually in C++) and then
installed.

Oh yes, ASP files are basically HTML files with a bunch of VBScript thrown
in for dynamic processing on the server. They work only on NT-based servers,
and occasionally on UNIX based servers if they have an interpreter installed
on it. If you get the opportunity to learn ASP, I recommend it, as, for
example, the site the script is used on contains twenty unique HTML (ASP)
files for page display in each of the two directory structures. Prior to
scripting the site with ASP, that same site had over 130  uniques HTML
files, and about 1/5 the functionality of the current site.

Good luck! Feel free to ask any other questions you may have! :-)

Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Boleszny" <seaeagle(at)one.net.au>
To: "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>; "Kehvan M. Zydhek"
<kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 16:59
Subject: Re: Netscape help required - correct message


> Hi Kehvan,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  Glad the second version was clearer; don't know
what
> happened to the first one :-)!  Naturally, I will honour any copyright you
> wish to place on the scripts.
>
> Also, thanks for the code.  I am a real novice at computer coding but I
get
> the general idea behind what your script is doing.  The head section
> contains the variable and declaratives for a simple routine that directs
the
> browser to an appropriate format -- depending on whether it is able to
read
> Java and/or CSS.  This is activated by the "enter" link, which refers to
the
> "head" code for the appropriate directory.
>
> However, the link refers to ASP pages and I know less about that than I do
> about Java/Javascript.  Am I right in assuming that I can change the
> extensions to .html without the code breaking?
>
> You also refer to a file://--.  What is this and what should I change it
to,
> if at all?
>
> As soon as funds permit, I intend getting a Java resource and catching up
to
> the rest of you!  I saw a book on HTML 4 that showed me just how niave I
> really am.  I hadn't even heard of DHTML and am just getting familiar with
> XHTML and XML.
>
> Do I have a short and sharp learning curve ahead!!
>
> Cheers and thanks again!

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