Re: What's New

[Olaf Walkowiak <si0015@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de>]

Hi Chris,

I agree with you, but I think there are lots of people who can't execute 
cgi-scripts on the server.

Besides, the personalized whatsnew page is a niche service, so why not 
try out several methods to find the best?

BTW: It is a good edication in JavaScript programming to :-)

So long
Olaf


Chris Moses wrote:
 
> There seems to be a thread about how to display different info
> based on the users last visit. It might have already been
> suggested, so excuse me if this is redundant, but one thing that
> occured to me is that this is probably better handled on the
> server side for the following reasons:
> 1. The server side is more powerful, you can access DBs and such
> 2. handling it on the client side is likely to require going
> back to the server to get new pages anyway. why not cut out the
> extra connection
> 
> It seems like this should be pretty easy - just make the default
> document a cgi script that checks the cookie and decides what to
> send back.
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