RE: Web-Facing Tool

Walden,

I agree you can work around most anything. One challenge for me was refresh.
Sometimes a refresh really needs a round trip to the server. If you can't trap 
that
event  you can't do much to control what the application does.  Completely
turning off caching and then working from the perspective that refresh is a 
non-event
is backwards to me. It is even worse for things like exit and search.

David Morris

>>> WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com 09/26/01 03:00PM >>>
Jim,

But the use of function keys in the first place is part of the 5250 mindset.
A good HTML design would have the need for keys. That, I think, is part of
the reason all the 5250 to HTML tools will eventually fail. The interactive
design and flow of a good HTML interface is different enough from a 5250 one
that we can't simply map from one to the other, no matter how much we wanted
to.

David,

If I understand you question, you're not talking about 5250 to HTML, but
HTML in general. If so, the _only_ place I'd even consider 5250 better than
HTML is pure heads-down data entry. I think the speed of 5250 with the
physical location of the field exit keys is better than HTML. But other than
that minor detail I think HTML is every bit as capable as 5250.