Re: Client/Server Applications - what to use?

[Wynn Osborne <wynn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, I HATE all browser interfaces.

Tell me something: Why does the tab key get lost on most web interfaces?
And why does every object on a web screen allow tab stops? 




At 08:23 PM 8/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
>At 01:08 08/30/2000 , Iain Clark wrote:
>>I have an application to write that I feel would benefit from a graphical,
>>ie VB5 front end. My question is - what is the best way to link the
>>application to the as/400....APPC, Data Queues, RDO/VDO, ODBC, etc, etc.
>>There would need to be a certain amount of validation to be performed on
>>various input fields, so constant communication between the two is
>>imperative.  Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated.
>
>I've come to the conclusion that XML and the browser interface is the way 
>to go. There are certainly differing opinions, but I've been working with 
>it for about a month now, and it's really pretty slick. I'm using AVR based 
>ADO modules connected to RPG server programs via ASNA's Datagate. No live 
>operations experience yet, but it looks very promising. Very simple to 
>implement. The client side validation and user interface is controlled with 
>javascript which allows you to tap into all of the DHTML capability of IE 
>as well as the rather nifty XML parser. User sequencing and filtering 
>operations happen without a return trip to the server. There are other 
>browsers, but fortunately for me, I don't need to contend with them, since 
>it's all on the company intranet, all IE5+, and all using W3C published 
>standard interfaces. Did I mention it's a lot of fun?
>
>
>Pete Hall
>pbhall@execpc.com
>http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
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