AW: PHP v Javascript

Hi James that's a long theme, but I think you are right What ever can be done on the client-side shoud be done there, in what language however. The most important thing is to minimize time and that's a synonym for traffic: so animated buttons, frame-fun-action, even the first controll of form-entries could be done with java. I'm smiling about the argument 'JAVA could be disabled': from 674 visitor on my homepage in the last three month wasn't only one who realy has disabled java-script I dont want to take any notice of that funy guy, except that he was lead to a tiny HTML-side which is telling him to switch on java or to go to hell. (and only 0.7 are still using 640x480 pix, only 8.8% using netscape by the way) But all data-related things are for php and all security-related too. For the first the reason is time and for the second the security-holes in Java. Did you ever programmed a form that ask for perhaps five special sets of date from a table of one thousand in java? The whole table has to be transfered to the client before any searches or compares can be made by the clientbrowser. Well, all of your data and programmcode are now in the temporary_internetfiles and the total of your datastructur and programm is analized by a small planet. If your visitor has only a litle idea of his computer, the first time was the last time you've seen him and the next query he needs runs local on C:\ . In php the server cpu, or better your program, fetches that five sets and sends only that few to the client, most in 1% of the time java took; - your data is still yours, and the program too. :-)) In reality its more a question of philosophie: And if there is nothing you can do with java, which you can do in php, so just do it best :-)) that all cu Klaus Schmidt p.s.: to get any event (onClick, onMouseover etc.) will fail in php or is there a way without java?