> -----Original Message----- > From: Lok Group of companies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: October 25, 2001 12:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: wanted help in Selection of User Interface > > > Hi, > > I am having learning Perl. I am in the process of selecting a > complete Open > Source environment for Development of common business > application for the > organisation. > > Perl is the language of choice as it is stable, documented and more > importantly because of DBI. We cannot do away with xBase > either during the > transition period which could be around a year or two.. > > This kind of architecture will be very useful in Countries > like India where > still 386/486 are not part of land dump but rather prize possession. > > The basic Application architecture is All the > application/business logic is > in Perl with the code fork, only if required, for User > interface part of it. > > In this regard, One of the issues is the front end > development -- we want > Character mode as well as GUI mode. for the application as > the client end > has a motley collection 386, 486, P1, Celeron h/w with varying > configurations. GUI can be handled with Web browsers with > CGI.pm. I am not > aware of other alternatives. Now I am not able to find a > decent Character > Mode witha all the bells and whistles which will help build at least > transactional portions. > > Can somebody please suggest alternatives, guidlines etc.. > > Rajagopal S. Iyer > > I may be out to lunch here but if your requirements for your browser based GUI are kept relatively simple and you create and follow some development guidelines for your CGI.pm web apps, you could probably deploy both the GUI and Character mode front ends using the same application. Your more robust client machines can use Linux, X and the most appropriate Open Source browser (e.g.. Netscape, Konqueror, Mozilla, etc). For machines that are not practically capable of supporting X (old PC's, dumb terminals, etc), use a character based browser like Lynx. Whenever I write Web apps, I always try to design them to be "usable" via a text based browser. In fact, as long as you keep things simple (read: no bells or whistles where they don't add any usability value to the app'), Lynx, or another character based browser, handles the presentation of basic HTML quite nicely.
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