There was an article on ChipCenter about doing serial communication from a Webpage! Sample code included. That is pretty interesting, but it basically embeds into the HTML the same Active-X Object used in VB for serial comm. The presence of Microsoft technology would mean that this page would probably not work on Netscape.

Now wouldn't that be reason enough to learn HTML? The possibility of being able to develop an ad-hoc serial comm debugger in 5 minutes! :-D

On the other hand, in my experience, Javascript is *THE* most difficult language to debug. Interrupt-driven programs pale in comparison to the terrors of huge javascript code.

In case anyone's interested, here's the link:

http://www.chipcenter.com/eexpert/r...by013.html

Sorry, I can't make the link blue 'coz I haven't registered, simply 'coz I got too many accounts at too many websites and I can't keep track of all the passwords :-))

kundi