Re: theory and practice: ying and yang

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:25:40 -0400, Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote:

>I took this inference from your own site, this page in particular:
>
>http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/southwind/
>
>Where all of the links I looked at showed tabular information. The term
>"one true UI" is definitely my own characterization of what I thought you
>were saying, and is probably overly harsh and undeserved.
>
>So perhaps I should fall back to that question: Once the DB is implementing
>all rules, what is the role of the other layers?

The role of the presentation layer is to present the data and to communicate with the users.

An empoverished presentation layer like the one in the link is unnacceptable for almost any real world Information System.

Regards Received on Fri Jun 03 2005 - 15:17:28 CEST