Hi Martin,
At 11:56 PM 4/10/00 +0200, you wrote:
>1. A Rebol script can be used to fetch data from a textfile and put the
>data
>into a HTML template, thus creating an unique web page? In this way one may
>render lots of documents of the same kind, but with unique data, such as a
>list of products where each product is linked to a script-generated
>information page?
That is correct. This can be done offline, i.e. creating static webpages.
>
>2. A Rebol script can be used in the way above, but on the server side,
>reading data from a text file for input to the HTML template. In this way,
>Rebol may serve the same function as Visual Basic or Javascript within an
>Active Server Page?
Absolutely.
>
>3. Which one of the two above methods is preferred -- rendering unique web
>pages with a script or having the script read data "on the fly" thus
>providing dynamic web pages?
It depends on what you are trying to do, what resources are available on
your machine and how many hits you expect to process.
As a rule, static Web pages are of course less resource hungry and more
stable. I would only use dynamic Web pages if the data changes often enough
to justify the additional overhead on the server side. Or if the ratio of
expected number of hits vs. the resources available on the machine is
ridiculously low.
>
>I would be really glad to get some ideas on this, and maybe even some code
>that I can play around with to learn from. Thanks!
>
Look at Andrew's HTML Dialect in the archive at www.rebol.org.
Hope this helps,
;- Elan >> [: - )]
