RE: No 5250-based applications

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

James,

It's a great idea, but not exactly new - sorry. :) It's called a virtual
machine.


John Taylor
Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of James W. Kilgore
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:20 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: No 5250-based applications
>
>
> I just had a wild thought ...
>
> What if someone gutted the Netscape browser (it's open source) and
> tweaked it to override it's F key usage and shortcuts, removed the X
> button, removed the back button, etc. but still left it's display
> formatting capabilities?
>
> The user starts their favorite browser, picks a URL to log on to the
> AS/400, that URL points to a file with a special type (eiml? eLogo
> iSeries Markup Language) which in turn spawns the modified browser for a
> GUI?  This modified browser would still talk to the HTTP server on the
> AS/400.
>
>

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