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[Jeff Loiselle]

Well, if you feel like risking your life using Internet Explorer at 
least just locally, you can check out Wez Furlong's Activescript SAPI. 
http://cvs.php.net/php-src/sapi/activescript/

LeeEyerman at aol.com wrote:

> Yes you can't, but wouldn't it be cool if PHP were cliet side like the 
> example below.  Then I wouldn't have to keep digging through 
> JavaScript books for client side manips.  In fact, I think a case 
> could be made that with the proper IDE, PHP could stand on its own as 
> a very powerful programming language, especially for DB integration.  
> PHP just seems to make so much more practical sense, and it is fast - 
> both of which I find lacking with Java.  (I really don't like Java all 
> that much, I used it for four years before PHP, and when I started 
> with PHP it was like FREEDOM!, compared with Java.... oh well just  my 
> two cents. Perhaps, PHP 6 can have a client side include and a 
> compiler - that way I can do away with Java and its nasty little 
> brother JavaScript - this is not to mention .NET, I'm seemingly not 
> smart enough for it - or is it that I don't have the six months to 
> understand how the 'Hello World' program works, why it takes so much 
> effort to get it to work, and why .NET supposedly does it so much 
> better - whatever the case  :)
>  

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Jeff Loiselle - http://www.newnewmedia.com/~jeff