Embedded mt scripts [WAS Re: Text editors]

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/29/02 2:10 PM, andu wrote:
> 
> I'm a little confused about the use of "embedded" and would be nice if 
> you could do a demo web page with the above.
>  From what I understand, the display doesn't go beyond the html 
> possibilities unlike a java implementation which would allow for custom 
> widgets and behavior. I don't mean to say that your solution is not 
> definitely a more elegant way of doing it then the html templates I use 
> for script generated web pages.

I'm too new at this to give a definitive answer but I think you are 
right that it is limited. But I was only looking for a way to generate 
dynamic content within an existing html page without re-generating the 
entire page. I did try an mt script that re-created entire html 
documents, but ran into permission problems on the server; cgis run as 
"nobody" and "nobody" didn't have permission to write to my web 
directory. I suppose there are ways around that, but I wasn't able to do it.

What I really wanted was just a way to insert either text or html code 
into an existing document so that a small part of it was dynamic. The 
"object" and "iframe" tags do that. I think you are right that it only 
works within the contraints of html, but for simple dynamic content that 
can be enough. It also has the advantage that it doesn't require that 
the browser have java or javascript enabled. I often turn off both those 
capabilities, for security or privacy reasons.

I need to experiment with it some more, but I will put up an explanation 
at my web site pretty soon if it looks like it is a generally workable 
technique.


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