Is Inline.Net's iHTML Any Good? 12
One sprout out of our fine crop of Anonymous Cowards has this query: "A few months ago our company bought a e-commerce package from Inline. The trick to it is that it is written in their own language, iHTML. Outside of normal configuration issues, the package never worked right out of the box and trying to understand it was quite a pain. When I downloaded fixes for the package there were new features added which ALSO had bugs! I was just curious whether other Slashdot readers had any experiences with iHTML and whether any of you thought it was a 'sound' scripting language."
If you're going to go proprietary (Score:2)
stay open (Score:1)
Go with something truly tested (Score:1)
I never quite understood why people always felt when they pay big $$$ to buy a product from a company, they expect it to be better than something they got for free. Another example of that is W2k vs FreeBSD, *ahem* no contest performance-wise or stability-wise.
iHTML can always suit some purpose. (Score:1)
Bingeldac denies any responsibility for the
spelling and/or grammatical errors above.
[ot?] CF footnote (Score:1)
Just a footnote to anyone considering going with ColdFusion: it has documented security issues. Search (for example) securityfocus.com for examples. I don't recall if all of them were end-user fixable, but they might have been (I don't have access to it).
Before anyone gets too riled up, I'm not saying that CF is a crappy language (on the contrary it does look cool from the little bits I've seen). Also it should be noted I'm not a full-time security or CF person, so this is just an informal heads-up that people looking into CF should also see if there are still any issues with the current version(s)...
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Fuck Censorship.
Help! I can't make it work!! (Score:1)
Re:Help! I can't make it work!! (Score:1)
I hate it when I forget I'm posting to /. and have to put the HTML in or hit the "plain ol' text option"
D.
Fells like ColdFusion and Forums (Score:1)
But this feels like Allaire Forums, which was a forum application written with ColdFusion. Forums was full of bugs and basicly never supported. It was basicly a marketting attempt by Allaire to make derived products from CF, without any success. I think it was later abandoned.
I have used CF, PHP, Perl, python, etc.. And I can tell you that CF really sucks. First, it is veyr expensive, not very reliable. It is also a disgusting language that favorises mixing the logic and the design. I would really advise using general purpose languages or PHP. I also really like Zope, their system is really nice, but I still have doubts about its ability to scale.
Re:If you're going to go proprietary (Score:1)
Re:Help! I can't make it work!! (Score:1)
Now, add in the fact that it is developed using the easy to learn iHTML and customizations are a breeze. Can't handle them yourself, then there are plently of developers out there who can (http://www.homick.com [homick.com])
My final point lies with the fact that the merchant support team is unrivaled. Clients speak directly with the developers who know the products best. There is no calling a middle man to tell you: "I'll look into that". You deal with the guy who wrote the code.
Oops, one more point. The loyal users of iHTML and the iHTML Merchant are always giving away hints and tips through Inline's mailing list. If you need help on a weekend and cant wait till Monday, post it to the list and you'll have responses within an hour.
IMO, Inline's iHTML Merchant [ihtmlmerchant.com] is the best on the market.
Re:Fells like ColdFusion and Forums (Score:1)
1. Free support from the Company themselves
2. Paid support from the Company
3. Mailing Lists with other users/developers who are more than willing to help.
4. A Web board.
CF and iHTML are similar products only in that they both web scripting languages other than that they are totally different:
1. iHTML is reasonably priced.
2. iHTML has fantastic support.
3. iHTML is not bloatware.
iHTML Merchant will never be abandoned, if people would take the time to download a demo and try it out they would see why.
Regards,
D.
Re:Help! I can't make it work!! (Score:1)