Re: alternative for subfiles

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nicely done. The only thing in that blog that was not in yours was a 
"position-to" field.

It's interesting how one's expectations change after being exposed to so 
many web applications.  If I compare what you've done to the similar 
green-screen app, it's great!  But in spite of that, there is this 
expectation that because it is in a web browser, it will act like other 
web applications.  For example, I found my self uselessly spinning the 
wheel on my mouse expecting it to page up/down.  Or pressing "B", 
expecting it to jump to the first record whose Name starts with a "B".  
That leads to a feeling that it's lacking, even though it provides the 
same functionality as the green screen version. And I think that's 
something to be aware of when moving a green screen app to the web.



On 5/21/2020 12:37 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> In regard to scroll bars or any other element or any other type of
> navigation or any other feature pertaining to a UI, I too might ask why
> not? Doesn't it come down to what you're trying to achieve? With browser
> user interfaces, you have so many options. In that particular application I
> was trying to mimic behavior delineated in the following blog:
>
> http://www.rpglk.com/2016/11/how-to-create-subfile-without-native-io.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:16 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I like it.  Simple.  Clear.  Easy to implement, and a great dashboard
> > item for an IFS web page.
> >
> > A passing comment:  "VCR-style buttons are used to implement page
> > navigation."   ....  why not a scroll bar?