Debating web development toolsets

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:35:35PM -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>    Why would you ever want to? You use HTML and CSS to create the
>    website.
> 
>    Use a programming language only for dynamic content.
> 
>    I have very few pages that are entirely generated by scripts, e.g.:
> 
>       http://cfaj.freeshell.org/wordfinder
>       http://torquiz.freeshell.org/members/members.cgi
> 
>    There are, however, many more that have features that are generated
>    by CGI script using SSI.

One reason to do everything with scripts is to allow using templates and
other nifty script generated HTML code that gives you a consistent look
and consistent menus everywhere without having to edit every page
whenever you want to make a change.

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