Please take a look at the following survey on the popularity of various Web programming languages.

Please comment on it and tell me if you believe it to be relevant. Also, I noticed the obvious absence of HTML and CSS in the above survey, so I studied this page on Web scripting and style. I'm a bit confused: can someone briefly explain the relationship between scripting and style? When I italicized the word, "relationship" in the previous sentence, was I employing scripting or style? Is all BB code a subset of HTML? When I hyperlinked the string, "Web scripting and style" in the second sentence of this paragraph, was that programming, scripting or style?

Finally, how does the programming language set {Web scripting languages} relate to the programming language set {Web programming languages}? My confusion is that whether your website calculates the quickest driving route from Albany to Omaha or, italicizes a word - from the CPU's perspective it's just being told to do a few things in a specific order.

I realize there is something fundamental I'm misunderstanding. Can you help me put my finger on it?

This post has been edited by LowWaterMark: 26 Aug, 2008 - 12:38 AM

A web scriting language is something like javascript or vb script, theyare fairly standard but not required for a browser to work.

Web programming is a server side application made with things like php, asp, jsp and the list goes on. These languages are used to create differences in the HTML output (Note HTML and CSS are not programming languages, nor are they scripting languages).

HTML is an interpreted text file that tells the browser how to render the web page, this is helped by CSS but CSS isn't required for a browser to work properly. HTML just tells the page how to look.

BB is not an official language. It is more a framework that makes HTML more accessable to people who don't know how HTML works. It is also more restricted than HTML in that you can't change the style of it inline (at least not with the standard framework). The way BB works is you type it into a textbox, submit that and a server side language goes through and replaces the recognized tags with their HTML counterparts. (This can also be done inline with Javascript).

Hope that helps.