carlsson
Veteran Member
Re: PHP
I'm sorry I need to open a new topic that Erik closed, but I have to correct Alexkerhead:
It means anyone's page (including Atari's) could be developed in a scripting language such as e.g. PHP and if the generated code is restricted to a lean output, there is absolutely no reason why it would work worse on a slower computer. The page will take longer on the server to generate, so you will have a bit of slack time that could've been useful on a computer that anyway is a bit slow to display the page.
I agree on Flash and in particular Java; I doubt there even are clients for the operating system you run on your 286 that support these technologies?
I'm sorry I need to open a new topic that Erik closed, but I have to correct Alexkerhead:
PHP is server side parsed, which means it will take exactly as long time to be ready to be transferred to the web browser on a Compaq 286 as it does on the latest Pentium Duo Core. Perhaps you associate pages in PHP with a lot of graphic content, since it is easy to generate those pages on the fly with a scripting language, and thus figure pages made in PHP (or ASP for that matter - possibly even ColdFusion etc) are heavier per se than pure HTML documents, for some value of "pure".
It means anyone's page (including Atari's) could be developed in a scripting language such as e.g. PHP and if the generated code is restricted to a lean output, there is absolutely no reason why it would work worse on a slower computer. The page will take longer on the server to generate, so you will have a bit of slack time that could've been useful on a computer that anyway is a bit slow to display the page.
I agree on Flash and in particular Java; I doubt there even are clients for the operating system you run on your 286 that support these technologies?
