Hi Ruprecht,
From: Ruprecht Helms [mailto:rhelms@mayn.de] Hi Thorsten Marsen,
Be aware to
make a decision about Extensions 2000 *OR* 2002 - I think 2002 is much more safe - and may be strongly recommened for that - but requires a httpd-Patch!
That is a very big reason for nontaking frontpage. Others are the blowing up of html-pages with ms-special-commands. And the third, relating to the last - you need extensions to execute such sites and you can only upload the pages from frontpage.
From a security point of view I totally agree with you.
Other editors (Dreamweaver, Quanta, asWedit, ...) produces normal site without the above mentioned bullshit of extensions and you need not especially ms-extensions for running and you can upload the pages via ftp.
Yeah, but sometimes clients just ignore any "wise-guy-talk". And after all, as a system administrator you're supposed to serve your clients. So if a client wants to use Frontpage (ignoring all warnings and rational thinking), you can either say no and loose this client or enable the Frontpage Extensions on your webserver. The choice is yours. And even if a system administrator wants to enable the Frontpage Extensions for his/her Apache webserver, there's no need to start flaming. And really cool websites are written with vi and best viewed with lynx. Forget about Macromedia Dreamweaver and all the other bloatware ;-)
Regards, Ruprecht
Regards, Stefan