: About Me

I think of a web server as a service that wraps around the data stored on the hard drive, very much like a waiter might take your order and come back with your refreshments. If I were to place an order for a rack of ribs, it wouldn't very likely be a waiter cooking those ribs for me. Neither would it be very likely that a web server would generate my dynamic content. The best a web server could do on its own without a scripting engine would be to pick up a pre-made salad from the cooler and plop it on your table. Without Javascript in those web pages, it couldn't even set your utensils for...