RE: No 5250-based applications

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty slick.  It's nice to know it CAN be done.  Thank you.

Do you think that part of the problem is that so many web apps are being
written by kids who haven't worked in the real world?

When applications were originally developed many of them were written piece
by piece, with user involvement in design, testing, and/or approval.  I
think a lot of major application suites are being reengineered for the web
without user input.  I have visions of these 20-something web kids working
off in a room somewhere, refacing screen after screen with web forms.  The
new forms make sense to the kids because they can get through a few records
of test data and the forms look pretty good.  They've never had to sit in a
hospital admissions office or a payroll data entry dungeon while some old
keypunch crone types rapid fire into a nicotene stained keyboard, debugging
and critiquing his new program.

I can remember a VB Developer being laughed out of the Order Entry
department during a demo of an entry screen that required the mouse.  Also,
since he hadn't cleaned up the field order after dragging and dropping
objects onto the form the tab key hopped all over the place, in a seemingly
random path.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent: 4/26/01 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: No 5250-based applications

> From: Jim Damato <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>

> Is anyone working with a web app for heavy duty,
> speed and accuracy motivated data entry users?

Can a Web browser be used for heads-down data entry?  I asked myself
that
question several months ago.  Here's what I came up with to test the
idea.
It's somewhat patterned after a 5250 data entry program I wrote many
YEARS
ago.  It's not very graphical, but it's an example.  Feel free to enter
some
transactions:

http://209.150.202.196/gljoen/begin.isp

Nathan.


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