Vista - Where is VBscript now?

Advice please... I've been out of the software biz since 2002.. now, I've got another bright idea and thought I'd dust off my brain, grab a case of Monster and start coding again.

The last apps I coded used Vbscript some Jscript, ADO, DHTML. Things were moving to .Net --

Are web apps still primarily written in uncompiled script? Sandwiched between HTML Tags? Basically, I'm asking what has changed in the past 6 years?

Thanks

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<guest@xxxxxx-email.com> posted:AIUI: Unless you want your application to be inaccessible to, IIRC, 20%
and rising of Web users, you will not use VBscript, which is IE only.

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I imagine it probably depends on what sort of stuff
you're doing. In the last 6 years .Net has come onto
the scene to compete with Java in terms of corporate
intranet applets and such. Also, VBScript has
been "de-emphasized", but it's still supported in IE
and Windows, with no sign that support will end.

Another big development is Ajax -- using javascript
with the httpRequest object to enable clunky but
serviceable interactive "web apps" like Google Maps. A third
development is that Microsoft is developing Silverlight
while Adobe tries to expand the role of Flash, with both
companies trying to predict and own the perceived
market for "rich" web-based "software".

In a word, it's all cloud all the time. "Cloudism" is the
current bubble, the current next big thing, simply because
nobody has any other ideas about how to replace the
income that used to come from frequent updates to
overpriced software. So if you want to jump on that
bandwagon you can write AJAX, or Flash, or Silverlight.

The very latest next big thing is Azure, a new move
by Microsoft that they describe as a cloud OS. The idea
seems to be that they want to get software developers
to move from the Windows platform to Azure web services,
where you can write applets and pay MS to host them.