;;; about-engine.mhtml: -*- Meta-HTML -*-
;;;  Tell people about the Engine Features.
;;;
;;;  Copyright (c) 1996 Brian J. Fox
;;;  Author: Brian J. Fox (bfox@ua.com) Thu Feb  1 09:47:34 1996.
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<ptext>
The <meta-html> CGI Engine is a mini-server which works together with
your existing Web server to provide unprecedented flexibility and
compatibility.

You may configure your Web server to use the <meta-html> CGI Engine in
several ways:

<ul>
  <li> As a processor only for pages containing <meta-html>.
  <li> As a pre-processor for a particular area of your site.
  <li> As a pre-processor for your entire site!
</ul>

The <meta-html> CGI Engine is ideal for those sites which desire the
full power of the <meta-html> programming language, but are tied into
using a Web server other than the
<a href="<get-var mhtml::url-to-dir>/about-server.mhtml"><meta-html>
  Web Server</a>.  The same full featured functionality is available
through use of the Engine as is with the Server, with the exception of
logging and header parsing (we expect your server to do that).  HTTP
Cookie support is built-in, and works seamlessly with those servers
that support it, as well as server-push, and other features.

The <meta-html> Stand-Alone Processor is a quick and easy way to use
<meta-html> for just a few pages on your entire site.  Designed to be
used as a direct language interpreter, you can easily invoke the
processor at the tops of specific Web pages, or, depending on your
server, for an entire class of Web pages.

Primarily designed for building a static Web Site from a <meta-html>
template, and because of the invocation model, the processor does not
automatically handle HTTP Cookies, or statefull sessions.

However, all of the <a href="<get-var
mhtml::url-to-dir>/welcome.mhtml"><meta-html> language features</a>
are available in the Stand-Alone processor, so you enjoy the benefits
of direct access to database functionality, dynamically built pages,
and a full programming language!
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