What exactly is custom scripting?
As most people are aware the computer language that forms the basis of web pages is HTML. But you’ll often hear mention of scripting languages - so what is a scripting language? First the word scripting just means programming and the term scripting languages tends to be applied to what would actually be called programming languages in a context other than the web.
So is HTML a scripting (or programming) language? Well no - HTML is a mark-up language that consists of a list of instructions that tell the web browser how to render the page (when to break to a new line, which font to use etc). The instructions are generally processed in the order in which they appear in the list and will produce the same result each time the page is loaded. A scripting language, on the other hand, is a list of instructions that may not be processed in the order in which they appear and can make decision branches to other instructions in the list depending on the results of conditional statements.
