Re: HTML and PDF Reports

Nathan Andelin wrote:

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/apps/rsdc/iphone.html

I added a chat screen. Try submitting messages.

As this is a prototype, I'm just using a bit of JavaScript to update the message viewer, but it would only take a bit of AJAX to send chat messages to the server and handle a response to update the viewer. The request/response cycle would appear instantaneous and use very little bandwidth.

I'm sorry I can't dedicate the time to duplicating the entire application, but hopefully this small "chat" prototype gives you more confidence in me.

I'm sorry Nathan, but this doesn't really do it. The chat screen in the RSDC scheduler is a persistent view. Comments are stored in the database. Anybody can log in and see all the past messages, as well as stay logged in and watch realtime messaging.

That's sort of my point. This is a real applications, with real business logic. Sure, you can make something that looks like a chat screen, but can you actually add the business logic that makes it work? And now you're writing JavaScript as well as RPG; as the amount of JavaScript grows, then at some point you're not really doing RPG-CGI, are you?

I have great faith in you. But no matter how good you are, it's hard to do things using the wrong tools.

Joe