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Joe,

If done correctly... you mean with a ton of Javascript ?

I just consider that a mess, not safe and a nightmare to get it working on
both IE and Netscape.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
Sent: 11 March, 2002 15:01
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: The future of RPG (was DIM question).


> From: Nicolay, Paul
following comments...
>
> 1. e-RPG is nice for limited, and mainly inquiry stuff.  I read your text
> about the heavy user interfaces required by today's business applications,
> so how will you handle those with something that's even worse than a 5250
> datastream.

HTML is nearly equivalent to 5250 if done correctly.  It's fast, lean and
every bit as productive.  You can enable function keys, cursor positioning,
keyboard shift codes, everything.  There are a couple of 5250 features that
are very hard to emulate, such as CLRL(*NO), but in general it's very easy
to make a 5250 emulation in a browser.


> 4. Haven't seen that one yet so I can hardly comment on it.

I understand.  Just so you know, my product has two options: 5250 emulation
mode, which looks basically like 5250 in a browser and requires no
programming, and web application mode, which generates an easily customized
JSP.  It requires someone with some HTML knowledge to make the screen
pretty, but you end up with some gorgeous screens.  But the first mode, 5250
emulation, looks basically just like a 5250 screen, except it's running in a
browser in pure HTML.

Joe

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