Does anyone write ASP in JavaScript?

[Wynd]

Just curious, i wrote an ASP calendar in javascript and my friend didn't think it could be done.

[alex_read]

You can't
This is called JSP - pinched from ASP, similar, but using Java / Javascript.

[Cander]

Actually Alex, you are wrong. ASP can be done in VBScript or Javascript.

[CiberTHuG]

As I understand it, you can create an ASP with either VBScript or JScript. Note, JScript is not the same as JavaScript, although they are both moving toward the W3C DOM standard and the ECMAScript standard.

You can create JSPs and you can create JavaScript that runs "serverside", but neither of theses are ASPs.

[Wynd]

Yeah, just change the <%@language%> to Javascript instead of VBscript.

[CiberTHuG]

Well... either your web server can serve JSPs or you aren't noticing that JScript's and JavaScript's syntax are very very similar. You can leave out the @language. IIS will figure out that it is an ASP and will figure out that it is VBScript or JScript (should). But officially, and technically, your ASP is in JScript, not JavaScript.

It is a very small technicality since their syntax are so similar.

[Wynd]

Are there any big differences?

[CiberTHuG]

No big differences, they are striving for the same standard.

Does JavaScript support the MS FSO Model? I'm sure there are others, but that one jumps out at me.

[JoshT]

I remember seeing a web page comparison that said ASP using JScript performed faster than ASP using VBScript. Some time I'd like to write the same page in both languages and time it.

[CiberTHuG]

Josh, that is very true. VB and VBScript are large and slow. JScript runs faster than VBScript and VC++ runs faster than VB.

'Course, you have to make a project big enough to notice the difference.