28.5. Executing programs at server and client
We saw above that a web page may contain a script which is executed by the client's browser:
<SCRIPT type = “text/javascript”> … the script … </SCRIPT>
It is also possible for an HTML page to contain a script to be executed at the server side:
<SERVER type = “text/javascript”> … the script … </SERVER>
The result of executing the script, but not the script itself, is sent to the client along with the rest of the document. This facility might be used to personalize a page by inserting a 'welcome back' string before returning a page to a registered client. Figure 28.2 shows server-side and client-side script execution.
We also saw in Section 28.4 that forms may be sent for users to fill in either embedded ...
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