All these web technologies I don't know where to start, have you got any suggestions for getting started in the world of web development, books maybe ?
Once again thanks for your help Mike Meyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Ok then, web it is, just wondering how you can test the web application > > while developing and how do you find out the capabilities of the > > browser, I now have browsed WAP pages on my Windows smartphone, is > > there any difference to developing a WAP/WML solution to a HTML - > > obviously it's in a different markup language, but is there anything > > else that is needed between the client and the webserver ? > > I wouldn't bother with WAP/WML these days. It's designed for *really* > small devices, like pagers and 2nd millenium cell phones. Unless, of > course, something else dictates it's use. > > You found out the capabilities of the browser by reading the browser > documentation. That should specify which version of > HTML/XHTML/CSS/DOM/etc. it supports. I wouldn't worry to much about > finding a browser that supports exactly the same set of > documents. Find one that supports at least those, then use that. I > like FireFox, because the available extensions include lots of things > that are useful for web developers. Make sure you only use features > that are documented as supported by the target browser. You'll have > problems with bugs in FireFox for some things, and then when you get > around to deployment you'll have problems with bugs in your target > browser. The further you stay away from advanced/esoteric features, > the less trouble you'll have. > > > I have only ever played at web development in the past and I used MS > > Active Server Pages and this seemed pretty straightforward, I know you > > can use Python as the scripting language for ASP but I want something > > platform neutral, so I was wondering if anyone could suggest some > > similar framework for Python on both Linux and Windows. > > And with that, you open a can of worms. There are so many choices > available for Python that people complain there are to many. The > closest thing to ASP is PSP. There are a number of version of that; > I'd use the one bundled with recent versions of mod_python for Apache > if you want that. Personally, I prefer to Cheetah Templates to PSP - > it plays better in the OO world, and I can use intelligent > HTML/XML/SGML editors on the files. You can also "precompile" cheetah > templates to python, and just put on the server; I'm not sure you can > do that with mod_python's PSP. There are other choices at that level, > and there are also far more integrated solutions available as > well. You may have to byte the bullet and evaluate them. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list