RE: Green screen - it's time is over

["Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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.
>

Actually, with my new dedicated 270 I have never complained about the speed.
What you run into when trying to write "heads down" data entry type
applications through HTML is a simple lack of functionality... Enter,
Function Keys, and such aren't inherent in the presentation as they are on
Green Screen.  While there may be ways to code some of that stuff in, it
gets cumbersome and overly difficult to manage in a hurry.  Not to mention
there is no type-ahead buffer for the NEXT HTML page <bg> !

Joel