Re: Oracle Development Time (Short Survey)
Date: 16 Feb 1995 07:57:10 -0600
Message-ID: <3hvljm$pec_at_bristol.onramp.net>
In article <cheema.792785900_at_nntp.msstate.edu>,
Mubashir Cheema <cheema_at_earth.sparco.com> wrote:
>
>Why do people need all kinds of forms for all kinds different OS's when
>you can connect your web server to Oracle and server every major platform ?
>
>Just wondering.
>
The main reason is that web browsers really aren't that good at supporting
forms based applications. For example, there are no triggers in web
browsers meaning that the end user doesn't know of any mistakes they
made until the press the submit button. Also there is no simple way to
"pop up" a second form and then go back to the first form with new
information. This must be accomplished by regenerating the first form
after the second has been processed. An example of this would be showing
a list of values for a field. Advanced features such as having the form
scroll automatically to a list whenever the first character of an element
of that list is typed are not supported.
Other issues to be resolved are how to send form data to a cgi script when links are pressed instead of buttons.
Don't get me wrong, I've developed several web based applications that interface with Oracle (some are at http://bristol.onramp.net/) but the current web technology is still a bit too immature to support the high degree of functionality that other forms based systems support.
I hope this helps (and if you have any solutions to some of the problems I mentioned, please let me know!)
Mike Marolda - mmarolda_at_onramp.net
Onramp Productions
http://bristol.onramp.net
Received on Thu Feb 16 1995 - 14:57:10 CET