Chapter 10. Client-Side Web Scripting
In this chapter, you take VBScript straight to your web site visitor's browser. You take a look at how VBScript and Internet Explorer can be combined on the client side to create interesting and exciting HTML pages for your visitors.
Going straight for the client side is the easiest, low-tech, no-special-server needed way to get VBScript-enabled pages to the visitor. You can do it using any server, with no Active Server Pages (ASP) needed.
In this chapter you learn what you need to deliver VBScript-enabled content straight to the browser, as well as find out how it works and what you can do with it. You start by exploring the tools you'll need to write client-side VBScript.
Tools of the Trade
Creating HTML web pages requires nothing more than a text editor to type in your HTML code and a web browser to view it. To check that visitors to your web site see things the way you intend, you need to use the same browser or browsers as they are using. This is easy when you are dealing with Firefox or Opera because you can have many different versions installed on one system. Internet Explorer (IE) is a different case. Because it couples so tightly with the operating system, you can only have one version of Internet Explorer per machine.
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