Ways to write ASP scripts


	Lesson 11 Objective	Ways to write ASP scripts Compare scripting alternatives for embedding programs in HTML.
		You could think of scripts as the glue that holds entire Web-based applications together. With scripts, you create not just a group of related pages in HTML, but applications that can: Verify that a (U.S.) zip code matches the city and state entered for an address Offer a choice of movies, and begin playing the selected movie as soon as the choice is made Choose the version of a Web page that is optimized for the user's particular browser and send it to them You can create ASP scripts in any of several scripting languages from Microsoft or provided by third parties . Microsoft distributes two different scripting languages with Internet Explorer and ASP: JScript and VBScript. JScript is Microsoft's implementation of a new, Web standard scripting language and looks similar to JavaScript. VBScript is a stripped-down version of Visual Basic, designed for Web scripting instead of building standalone applications. You can even script for ASP in Perl , a popular language in the Unix world that is frequently used for system administration and CGI programming. In the next lesson, you will put an interactive message into the course project.