Instant Scriptlets - Softcover

Dino Esposito

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186100138X ISBN 13: 9781861001382

Publisher: Apress, 1998

Synopsis

Scriptlets are one of the most exciting features of Internet Explorer 4.0 and represent an excellent way to project DHTML as a development platform. DHTML will be key to the future of windows programming, but it is also important to web developers in general. IE will support DHTML and Scriptlets on Win32, Win3.1, Unix, Mac, WinCE, so Scriptlets and DHTML are not tied to windows in any way. Thus this book is useful for both Windows programmers and web developers. In the future, using HTML or DHTML will become natural, since you don't have to redistribute anything. Just assume that your software (even a desktop application) will run on a Win9x platform. All this wouldn't be so interesting and appealing if developers had to reinvent the wheel every time they needed some DHTML code. But Scriptlets have been introduced just to facilitate HTML code reuse! Consequently, there will be a strong need for good and useful Scriptlet books as soon as people realize what is changing and the direction that programming is going to take

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About the Author

Dino Esposito is a trainer and a consultant who specializes in Windows and COM programming. He works for Infomedia Communications, writing and teaching seminars on Win32 programming, VB, and HTML. Has an extensive experience developing commercial Windows-based software, especially for the photography world. He's a regular contributor to Microsoft Interactive Developer and Windows Developer's Journal and writes occasionally also for Windows Tech Journal. Dino lives in Rome (Italy) with his wife Silvia and can be contacted at desposito@infomedia.it.

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Scriptlets are a step beyond dynamic hypertext mark-up language (HTML). Scriptlets are a way to design new, custom-built objects to extend dynamic HTML. Esposito covers scriptlets on both the client and server sides and on the desktop when used in conjunction with JavaScript, VBscript, and VisualBasic. This book is targeted specifically to programmers who design Windows-based commercial code, not for beginners, but it does address an increasingly important topic. For large collections.
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Chapter 16 Server Scriptlets So far we've discussed all aspects of programming scriptlets. In doing so we have pointed out drawbacks and shortcomings, as well as key features such as reusability, components and so forth. The scriptlet technology, however, is continuously evolving. Just consider that, for example, when I started writing this book, in the fall of 1997, scriptlets had only just been introduced and there was no "public" idea of what things like Remote Scripting might be.

Instead, we have already covered Remote Scripting and now we're about to introduce a completely new and exciting application of scriptlet technology. Its official name is Server Scriptlets, but you might also find them referred to through the more evocative name of COM Scriptlets. Basically, Server Scriptlets are scriptlets with a more flexible syntax that behave like a COM server. From the programmer's standpoint, Server Scriptlets are COM servers written in any of the available script languages.

In this chapter we're going to examine the various language backdrops and then delve into the following details in more depth:

Structure of the file Differences with DHTML scriptlets Registration Information Defining a Public Interface Using Server Scriptlets in applications

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 186100138X
• ISBN 13: 9781861001382
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450