|  | Posted by McKirahan on 12/29/06 16:53 
"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in messagenews:1167409590.018789.296780@k21g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
 >
 > Highlander wrote:
 >
 > > Consider the following HTA:
 >
 > I'd rather not. You posted it to c.i.w.a.h where it's off-topic
 > because:
 >
 > It's a HTA (spawn of pure evil) rather than HTML
 
 Huh?
 
 > It's a HTML, thus not suitable for "web" use, as opposed to M$'s little
 > play-nice-with-everyone sandpit.
 
 HTA's are (primarily) meant to run locally.
 
 > It uses VBScript so it's IE-restricted
 
 So, this is a VBScript newsgroup.
 
 > The HTML is a bit poor
 
 Agreed.
 
 > The CSS is a bit poor
 
 Agreed.
 >
 >
 > > The script works fine, but I'm wondering if there's any way to
 > > dynamically populate the pulldown lists with all the months of the
 > > year, days of the month, etc. - rather than have to list each one out
 > > like this:
 >
 > HTML isn't a programming language, it's fundamentally a static text
 > markup language. So stick static things into it statically.
 
 VBScript is the programming language.
 
 > If you want to generate this programmatically (probably overkill for
 > days and months, but the principle isn't bad) then do it with some
 > server-side program that's _external_ to the HTML document itself  (and
 > it's only a line or two of ASP, even ASP/VBScript).
 
 HTA's are not an ASP topic.
 
 > Embedding executables into static documents is only sensible if you're
 > deliberately trying to obfuscate things, or you're drawing Hilbert
 > curves.
 
 Huh?  What does this have to do with anything?
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