Whats so good about it?.

eh?

Kunal,

Check out http://www.ihtml.com/ and you'll see what Eddie's talking about.

Eddie,

I haven't used iHTML personally, but I belive concepts, ideas and purposes are similar to other server-side languages like PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl etc. I guess it depends on what you're comfortable with and whether you're willing to learn.

AFAIK, there isn't as much demand for iHTML developers as opposed to ASP/PHP/Perl.

It's not free.

It's not widely supported.

It's not open-source.

It does not support everything that PHP supports.

Why bother?

it looks similar to jhtml, which is a wrapper for very powerful app servers sitting behind the main HTTP front end. Maybe this is the first release of something they hope will be very big.

not free & not widely supported doesn't equal crap. Look at products like ATG Dynamo and Broadvision. Incredibly powerful, well integrated OO systems based on JAVA. Unbelievably expensive, largely propriory coding using their JAVA classes; BUT used by the vast majority of serious Internet players.

Just a friend said it was good so i wouldnt to check it out. Guess i won't bother now :-).

There was also an article in Web Hosting Magazine about it. Miva vs iHTML. Miva won. iHTML got 1 or 2 points I believe because their users raved about it. I guess most scripting languages are *good* so to speak, they can (should be able to) all do the same tasks I guess VBulletin could easily be rewritten in Perl, C, C++, Miva, Java, C#,ColdFusion. I think the difference is how much you have to code, in C you would need to code loads and loads and loads, similarily in C++ and C#. Then Java,Perl,PHP,Miva etc... If you were to learn iHTML you'll probably like it, but it's the same everywhere once you learn (and learn to stage where you can exploit everything) you'll prefer it. But it seems little point to learn a technology not widely used, nothing special about it, not open-source, not free, when you can learn PHP or Perl. I know of only three hosts that support iHTML (one being Virtualscape).

Sys your from the uk right?. I think at least......

Wwhats the full title of the mag?. Only internet mag my news agent stocks is .net and thenet, But he did say he would order in any mags i wanted.

It is not available in the shop I don't believe, it is made by ispcheck.com and follow the link to the magazine site and then to subscriptions, depending on your business you may get it for free. :)

ahh thanks.

Just as a matter of interest, does ispcheck.com's guarateed hosts mean anything, or are they based on advertising revenue?

I've used iHTML for many of the automated sections of our web site. It's sort of like ASP but can do a few things that ASP can't.

I like it!

Mark
OPENHOSTING INTERNET SOLUTIONS
http://www.openhosting.co.uk

Site5 has been considering adding support for iHTML, as well as offering the iHTML Merchant shopping cart.

We are still debating the issue, and I'd love to hear what everyone here thinks!

Would you care if a host offers this? Would you prefer MIVA to iHTML? Do you think it is worth $1100/server? ;)

Should we just find (or write) a perl-based shopping cart instead?

Thanks!
Matt
mlightner@site5.com

Matt,

Personal opinion :

1. Just license Miva, as quite a few people know about it and use it.

2. Just write your own Perl-based shopping cart or re-licence one from one of the free ones at CGI-Resources or Hotscripts.com

Saves time too ;)

Thanks BC.

We have actually been thinking about licenseing MIVA instead of iHTML. As you said, many people are familiar with MIVA, while very few have even heard of iHTML.

We have a few other shopping cart solutions in mind. They seem to be a bit easier to use, and simpler to setup. They are also nice because we can modify the program source on our own (nobody at Site5 knows iHTML very well... or at all :D).

I appreciate your opinion!

Matt
mlightner@site5.com

There was a discussion on MIVA vs iHTML in the webhosting magazone and MIVA one 5:1

Yep... I have that issue. ;)

That's where we originally discovered iHTML.

It's not that bad really. MIVA is simply larger, more popular, and more established.

:homer: DOH! (that sounds like a winner to me!)

Matt - master of the obvious. :D