By combining iHTML with Java Script within the same page, you can build some powerful combinations of server and client-side programming. What sets iHTML apart from the rest, is its ability to access multiple data sources on one HTML page. Flow control and error handling. With iHTML s powerful graphics engine, you can program graphics, draw images on the fly, or overlay graphic images within an HTML document. By combining dynamic graphics with database access, you can generate charts and graphs from data stored in a corporate database system.
All processing is done on the server and no plug-ins or special browsers are required.
Background page processing. For example, by combining background page processing with iHTML s Internet features, you could build a mailing list manager that polls a mail server, queries a database for subscriber email addresses, and redistributes that mail to the subscribers. Many scripting languages available today are ports of standard languages to the web. These do not address the specific features available on the Internet such as DNS lookup, POP and SMTP mail, web advertisement management, server push technology, and so on. Traditional programming functions.