Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)

Re:Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) by sangnoir on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:13PM (#36790757)

> I don't see how it's going to beat Perl, which already lets you do the same things, but inside a full-fledged programming language

I don't know if you've heard of CPAN - it was introduced less than 2 months ago (October '95) and it's fantastic: you can browse and download modules off the world-wide web without hunting down tarballs on obscure FTP servers! The number of Perl modules on CPAN is growing daily! Any functionality a webmaster may want can be achieved using Perl CGI scripts - I highly recommend the latest CGI.pm (v2) whixhbyou can get from CPAN

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Re:Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) by joquarky on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:06PM (#36791601)

I found a wicked email CGI script on there that is all that and a bag of chips. You can transfer the script into your cgi-bin directory and submit a form to it to collect feedback and all that.

Just put an animated mailbox icon on your home page that hyperlinks to a form page. Put the usual <INPUT> and <TEXTAREA> elements for "from", "subject", yada-yadda-yadda...

Then put in "hidden" type <INPUT> form elements for the "to" value. Totally make sure to make it hidden!

Add a submit button, and bada-bing, you're all set!

You can even send messages to your pager! Check the manual that came with it.

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