Re: No 5250-based applications

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

I wish I had your well-trained users! Mine screw up all the time. Sometimes
it's an accident, sometimes they're just being stupid. Either way, I don't
have the luxury of avoiding "defensive programming". :)


John Taylor
Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 14:07
Subject: RE: No 5250-based applications


> Users can also turn off their green screen every time they hit enter, Ken.
> This is where end user training comes in.  Although I wonder if you can't
> even catch that keystroke with a simple Javascript.  But even if you
can't,
> I'm not going to program against a user doing an Alt-leftarrow.  I will
> remove the Back button so they don't do it accidentally, but I'm not going
> to worry about the "aggressively difficult" user.
>
> Joe
>
>


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