Re: Green screen - it's time is over

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DHTML is just a fancy term for using using CGI programs to
output HTML.  It has no bearing on the user-friendliness of
the format.  It's still HTML, and not what I'd want to use
for data intensive operations.  Start up WSG and go into SEU
and use it for editing your programs for a week.  You'll see
what I mean.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:56:31 -0500
 "jt" <jt@ee.net> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> I tend to agree.  But I don't know enough about Dynamic
> HTML (DHTML,
> Industry somewhat-Standard...;-) to write it off
> comletely, yet.
>
> jt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad
> Stone
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:55 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Green screen - it's time is over
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:51:03 -0600
> >  "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com> wrote:
> > > On the other hand, I think there IS a market for a
> purely
> > > TCP/IP-based
> > > protocol, either HTML or some other variant, that can
> > > emulate the clean
> > > interface of the 5250.  Most graphical applications
> are
> > > not nearly as
> > > friendly to data-entry-intensive applications as our
> > > beloved green screen.
> >
> > HTML being the worst case scenario.  Its not even close
> to
> > being as "clean" as 5250 green screens.  It's also a
> lot
> > slower.
> >
> > Brad
> > www.bvstools.com
>
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
www.bvstools.com