On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Web dev is still a complicated mess compared to desktop > apps. > > Let's talk with Gene W about the ease of data entry grids :) I think many of us have achieved a mastery of FoxPro with 5 or 10 or 20 years of experience, and a lot of stuff that didn't come easy at first is a lot easier now. If you're working with a sophisticated framework, whether homebrew or Visual MaxFrame or FoxExpress or Mere Mortals or one of the others, programming something like a tabbed pageframe with grids dynamically linked to other data-entry fields, buffering, collision detection and transactional integrity and local, row-level and business-rules integrity is still a matter of some skill and craft. Putting this on the web, supporting the various browsers (and, becoming more important, devices) is non-trivial. Line-of-business applications are not that common, but they are coming along. Data entry grids, keyboard shortcuts, fast incremental client-to-server interactions for inline validation, lookups, etc. are becoming more feasible. And you gain the benefits of device- and location-independence, scaleable use, and the potential to use a lot of other tools rather than depending on a shrinking specialty. It's a question of the right tool for the job. I still support clients who are using a heavily-modified version of a dBASE accounting package (ported to Fox Plus, Fox/DOS, Fox/Win and VFP) because it does what they need. Another has migrated, over ten years, from raw table browses to a multi-tier web app. Ultimately, it depends on the needs of the clients, today and tomorrow. And their budget, of course :) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4ut2b+d0zyh4foq7oapvgybavbujxqdzabqb_nfgqq...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
