Re: Best webifier for green screen applications

On 12/15/2015 4:47 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

I've always considered HATS to be a "stepping stone technology" and not a
destination technology.

Call it "stepping-stone", "interim", "stop-gap", "make-shift",
"provisional", or whatever. Each of those terms is being overly generous to
every screen-scraping product out there. Transforming 5250 streams into
browser DOM objects makes the UI worse - not better, IMHO. You're adding
something like 30-100 times more CPU overhead, something like 20 times more
bandwidth, and reducing the productivity of end-users.

I'm not OP and I don't know the context of the request, but I can
sympathise. Imagine getting a decree from the corner office that the
company Shall Be Browser Based in 6 months. How would I do that, having
never once deployed a mission critical app to the web? I can argue with
the new CIO all I want, but he's new, he's making his mark in the world
and I'm a dinosaur in his eyes.

I might be making that a little too personal :-/

ps I utterly agree that a webified 5250 application is hideous compared
to a web app that was conceived, designed, implemented, and deployed as
a web app from the start.