SHTML question

[Ulysses]

Hi,

I have a basic site using straight HTML. I still
haven't had time to look into XHTML and DHTML
(I'm not sure what they can do), but I have a
script that uses SHTML to place a "quote of the
day" on a page.

My question is, if I change my page from HTML
to SHTML in order to include the "Quotes"
will this limit the number of people who will
be able to view the page?


Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

[atomicmunky]

it won't eliminate anyone from seeing your site.
all that the .shtml extension is doing is telling the server to include another file (in this case the quote of the day) before sending the page to the browser.

[geiger]

You can, however, make HTML pages be parsed by the server. Talk to your host.

And DHTML is only advanced Javascript; not like HTML really.

[Ulysses]

Thanks to Chris and Geiger for the info

[geiger]

Welcome.

[mattjacob]

Originally posted by geiger
And DHTML is only advanced Javascript; not like HTML really.

You're not correct in saying that; here's a good definition, and here's another.

[geiger]

Okay. I gave a bad definition. You learn something every day.

[vgarcia]

Originally posted by geiger
You can, however, make HTML pages be parsed by the server. Talk to your host.

How is this accomplished? Anyone done this before with Apache or IIS? If so, can you post up some help?

Thanks,
Vinnie

[mattjacob]

With Apache, add this line to your httpd.conf file:

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html

[Skunk]

Originally posted by mattjacob

You're not correct in saying that; here's a good definition, and here's another.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with that - the definition geiger gave seems pretty eaccurate to me. DHTML (when written like that) refers to client side techniques which allow real-time manipulation of the DOM of a page by scripts. These scripts are invariably written in Javascript (you can use VBScript but it's very rare to do this as VBScript is a) very ugly and b) only works on IE), so saying that DHTML is basically advanced Javascript is a pretty accurate description imo.

[creole]

Originally posted by atomicmunky
it won't eliminate anyone from seeing your site.
all that the .shtml extension is doing is telling the server to include another file (in this case the quote of the day) before sending the page to the browser.

For the record...using SHTML as your extension does not automatically tell the server to include other files. It simply tells the server to parse through a page looking for directives before sending it to the browser. If there are no directives on a page then nothing additional occurs.

If there are directives (including the date, including a file and more) then the server executes that code and THEN sends clean HTML to the browser.