RE: HTTP Server's jobs for CGI applications

[Leslie Russell <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans,
Describe to me a more manageable navigation method. Sure you could put 
the burden on the server through CGI but even if you are using 
mod_perl/apache the hit to the system might go over the top. Why not off 
load the responsibility of handling navigation to the client side. 
Even if you move your navigation scheme to a server side app you still 
don't patch the holes in the browser; there are still activex, flash, 
director and others all with their on well know security flaws. 
Until something better comes along, no commerce site is going to toss out 
all the neatness for plain drab html. Tossing out java script right now 
is silly, there do need to be some big changes made but that is true with 
any language. But the basic weakness in this case isn't the language it 
is the browser/desktop.

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