While not new to programming, I am new to web database developement.  Let 
me know if the following combination will work well for development of 
small databases running on Windows 2000 web server.

Netscapte 4.7, Windows 2000, ASP 3.0, JavaScript, MS Access 2000.

Our users are Netscape oriented.  I hear that in order to search Access 
2000 databases you need to use VB Script which will put me in an Internet 
Explorer browser environment rather than Netscape.

Thanks,

David James

the set ups great! apart from the ns4.7 thing...

although some people swear by it i generally spend my time swearing at it!
it's a good browser for purists (the code has to be pretty tight or the
whole thing fails) but you wanna do anything cool with layers, css it's
gonna be a headache. also the biggest installed user base is with ie...

they'll be other out there who'll say different, but we do our sites for
version 5/6 browsers - the webs got to move forward and development time to
cover old browsers is tooooo much (oops, may have dug myself a hole with
that one!)

gone are the days of designing a site for ns4 and ie5! get to six and most
of the worries are gone!

hope this helps,

cheers,

jake

on 25/4/02 17:16, David James at David_James@v... wrote:

> While not new to programming, I am new to web database developement.  Let
> me know if the following combination will work well for development of
> small databases running on Windows 2000 web server.
> 
> Netscapte 4.7, Windows 2000, ASP 3.0, JavaScript, MS Access 2000.
> 
> Our users are Netscape oriented.  I hear that in order to search Access
> 2000 databases you need to use VB Script which will put me in an Internet
> Explorer browser environment rather than Netscape.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David James

David - ASP is run server side so the browser you use is really irrelevant.
ASP will access you database and spit out a recordset which you will then
need to format in  HTML to be read by a browser. The browser that your
end-user will be using is only an issue when you start using client-side
scripting such as javascript etc.

HTH 

spence  





on 4/25/02 5:16 PM, David James at David_James@v... wrote:

> While not new to programming, I am new to web database developement.  Let
> me know if the following combination will work well for development of
> small databases running on Windows 2000 web server.
> 
> Netscapte 4.7, Windows 2000, ASP 3.0, JavaScript, MS Access 2000.
> 
> Our users are Netscape oriented.  I hear that in order to search Access
> 2000 databases you need to use VB Script which will put me in an Internet
> Explorer browser environment rather than Netscape.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David James