What are the major differences between Visual Basic and VBScript?

They are different: You dont compile VB scripts like in Visual Basic. You just distribute them as plain text HTML files.The script engine interprets this text into intermediate code when it loads the Web page. It also creates a symbol table so that it can quickly look up things such as event-procedures and variable names. The scripting engine uses the ActiveX Scripting technology to interact with the browser. IE supports VB scripts on your computer& we can create Web pages with VB scripts. For Visual Basic, you need a text editor,ActiveX,Control Pad and Web Browser.