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Trevor wrote:
 
>>Why would anyone buy a NEW application with a green screen data entry
>>function? Seems like buying a car with a hand crankstart.
 
If you rode a motorcycle, you'd know (as any fule know), that you always get a 
bike with a kickstart in addition to an electric start because sometimes 
technology fails... By the same token, web interfaces are great (I design 
web-enablement tools for a living), but rely on a bunch of extra technology, 
any bit of which may fail. Green-screen interfaces are simple and fast. Ans 
they include 'functionality' which is almost impossible to duplicate on an HTML 
page without using significant amounts of JavaScript - totally free cursor 
movement, for instance, to enable you to use the cursor-up/down keys to move to 
fields immediately above or below the current one. Using the Tab key to move 
like this just doesn't cut it on screens with lots of fields on them.
 
Now if your question is more basic - i.e. Why do companies still use manual 
date-entry, well then I'd say it's because they have neither the time nor the 
resources to change. And some areas are just difficult to change - timesheet 
entry will probably aleays be manually entered, because someone needs to 
interpret handwriting. It's the same reason they're still using RPG and COBOL 
rather than a "new" and "fancy" language like Java <suppressed-smirk>
 
Rory

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