Re: ACS Double Click

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth

"going to the web" doesn't necessarily mean rewrite everything with 
JQuery.- there are products that can leverage existing skills with 
screens and add things one could never do in 5250.

I don't want this to become a religious war on this stuff - just that 
the phrase can mean different modalities. From a complete rewrite in PHP 
to screen-scraping with customization options.

With a product to help, then concerns about GWT and XML and 
touch-control and all become moot - any product worth its salt will 
adjust to what is happening, methinks.

Cheers
Vern

On 9/21/2018 1:39 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> On its face this makes sense.  On the other hand, "move to the web" is 
> not an easy choice for a large business operation because of the 
> relatively short life-span of the web's software.  With a large 
> organization's 10 to 15 year development cycle, moving to the next new 
> best way every 3 or 4 years just not compute.
>
> For instance... jQuery is in decline.  GWT is gone.  Liferay is gone. 
> xml is in the dumper. The mouse is being replaced with finger moves, 
> eye-control is on the horizon.   This is all great stuff and is a 
> vibrant and exciting, but if you're a manager who wants to ship 
> product, bill product, meet payroll, and pay bills then providing 
> video games for the IT Department is way down your to-do list.
>
> That's why I believe there is a strong need for us programmers to 
> figure out what we can do with 5250 to accommodate a new generation of 
> users who will never understand which is the F16 key.   Yes; we can 
> offer check boxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns  without being 
> disloyal to our heritage.
>
> Wanting a reliable double-click is a reasonable expectation.
>
>
>
> On 9/21/2018 8:34 AM, Raul Jager wrote:
> > I think it is better to move to web, rather than improve green screen.
> > No matter what you do, green screen will look old.