Hello,

I'm looking at creating a project that has a touch screen panel on a com port and a front facing website.

I want the touch screen panel to interface with the web page, it will have two buttons (left & right) and I want those actions to "do something" on the web page.

I'm trying to work out which programming/scripting language would be best to, I could use JS but I believe that'd mean polling a c/perl/php script that is listening on the COM port considering JS has no socket capabilities.

Would it be easier if I used ASP.NET/C# - would it cause me less headaches?

Any input is appreciated.

Originally asked by: Josh Harry on Stack Overflow