Re: Green screen - it's time is over

["Brad Jensen" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@masi-brac.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: RE: Green screen - it's time is over


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@bvstools.com]
> >Start up WSG and go into SEU
> >and use it for editing your programs for a week.  You'll see
> >what I mean.
>
> Geez Brad, I wouldn't wish that on Bill Gates!  :-)
>
> I do some account style maintenance via CGI (only so I can do it
from
> anywhere), but I would never sell something like that to
clients.  Even with
> a LOT of scripting and such HTML simply isn't viable for data
entry
> intensive applications.

Welllll....

If you are running the HTML thru CGI and web server, it would be
slow. Using compiled DLLs and ASP/IIS would be faster, since the
DLL can stay in memory as long as the session is running (or any
session is running) so you don't have the tremendous overhead of
reading a cgi.exe file from disk, and starting it over again on
each transaction.

If that isn't fast enough, you write a custom html server to do
it.

We are considering some of these things.