Such as Linux, unix, mac os...

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Clarification of Question by odulsmin-ga on 07 Sep 2005 13:32 PDT

meaning...can a linux (& ...etc.) user use and visit a asp.net (& ...etc.) website?

I'm not sure about ASP.NET, but last time I checked, this little
project seems to work: http://www.apache-asp.org

Hope this answers your question.

Do you mean that a website hosted using ado.net/asp/asp.NET can be
used by a browser across all platforms or do you mean if
websites(created using ado.net/asp.net/asp) can deployed on any
platform?

If the later is your question,
Chilisoft, aquired by Sun seems to have an answer for you
http://www.sun.com/software/chilisoft/index.xml

For ASP.NET, take a look at the open source project called Mono
sponsored by Novell. This project is about developing the .NET
framework for Linux/Unix etc.

So ASP.NET and ADO.NET or any CLR based application must be able to
work here when Mono is installed.

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

If you meant if ASP/ASP.NET etc works inherently on other platforms
and websites, then the answer is no as they are developed by Microsoft
for Windows platform and Microsoft products only. However, I hear that
Microsoft is actively co-operating with Mono so .NET can be used on
non-microsoft platforms.

Hope this helps.

Sesh

znuff said:

"Do you mean that a website hosted using ado.net/asp/asp.NET can be
used by a browser across all platforms...(?)"

Right, so can John Doe, Linux user, and Janet Doe, Mac OS user,
successfully visit samplewebsite . com (a site using ASPX, ASP, etc.,
of course)?

Thanks!

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"Do you mean that a website hosted using ado.net/asp/asp.NET can be
used by a browser across all platforms...(?)"

Right, so can John Doe, Linux user, and Janet Doe, Mac OS user,
successfully visit samplewebsite . com (a site using ASPX, ASP, etc.,
of course)?
>>

Sure. So long as the website churns out correct HTML,then Joe on
Linux, Janet on Mac OS X, Jim using Windows 95, Karen using Windows
98, Mike using FreeBSD, David using Windows 2000 and Smith using XP
can visit and use the functionality on the samplesite.com.

The thing is there are two parts to a website. The server side and the
client(browser) side. On the server, technologies like ASP/ASP.NET are
brought into play to convert requests and business processes
dynamically into static HTML which is then served to the
visiting/requesting browser. In some instances, the webserver also
sends some client scripts like JavaScript/VBScript as part of HTML. So
long as the webserver serves Javascript only, it should be fine with
most of the popular browsers.

So to come back to your question, if the webserver is made to serve
correct standardised HTML to the browser, the web server platform and
its OS etc becomes immaterial to the browser and its OS.

Hope this helps.
Sesh

To rephrase.
So long as the webserver using ASP/ASP.NET/ADO/XML/Whatever is made to serve
correct standardised HTML to the browser, the web server platform and
its OS etc becomes immaterial to the browser and its OS.

Hope this helps.
Sesh