RE: Green screen - it's time is over

Brad,

I tend to agree.  But I don't know enough about Dynamic HTML (DHTML,
Industry somewhat-Standard...;-) to write it off comletely, yet.

jt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad Stone
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:55 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Green screen - it's time is over
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:51:03 -0600
>  "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com> wrote:
> > On the other hand, I think there IS a market for a purely
> > TCP/IP-based
> > protocol, either HTML or some other variant, that can
> > emulate the clean
> > interface of the 5250.  Most graphical applications are
> > not nearly as
> > friendly to data-entry-intensive applications as our
> > beloved green screen.
>
> HTML being the worst case scenario.  Its not even close to
> being as "clean" as 5250 green screens.  It's also a lot
> slower.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com