Is Inline.Net's iHTML Any Good?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday January 14, 2001 @11:58AM from the reading-between-the-marketspeak dept.

One sprout out of our fine crop of Anonymous Cowards has this query: "A few months ago our company bought a e-commerce package from Inline. The trick to it is that it is written in their own language, iHTML. Outside of normal configuration issues, the package never worked right out of the box and trying to understand it was quite a pain. When I downloaded fixes for the package there were new features added which ALSO had bugs! I was just curious whether other Slashdot readers had any experiences with iHTML and whether any of you thought it was a 'sound' scripting language."

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If you're going to go proprietary by harlan · 2001-01-14 07:32 · Score: 2

Personally, I prefer to use PHP for server side scripting, but I have nothing against other languages. I can understand why many people go with these proprietary metalanguages because they try to make the scripting languages seem like extensions to HTML, which is easy on non-programmer's heart. Although I've never used coldfusion, I'd say it's the largest of these. They're probably a safer bet.