Stephen, You are mistaken. I've used CSS already...over 6 years ago, in fact. I agree with your comment. It *is* great. I just was saying that you were comparing that to winforms assuming that a user would have to manually change every control, and my comment was that if he'd subclassed his controls, he wouldn't have to change *every* control.
>> You miss the point that CSS abstracts the control from it's display. No, I know that. I didn't miss that point. That was the problem with classic ASP--that it mixed the content with the markup. Or the problem with monolithic designed Fox apps where they didn't separate the UI from the Bizobj/DataObj layers. >>For web apps you would be surpised that time spent in the GUI is 60-40 or worse. The larger percentage is for making the Look where the lesser is for the functionality. CSS tries to offset that unbalance. I would agree that more time is spent for appearance in web pages than the amount of time required for appearance in winforms. >>AJAX just hides the postback "flash" in the browser. Nothing more then hiding the true operation of what is going on. When you identify an item and need corresponding data you have to fetch it, and present it. It could be a change to the data in a second picker control, list or grid. In a winform app you don't have the postback effect. And the operative word you've used here is "hide." Winforms are perhaps easier in that you wouldn't have to do any trickery due to the native object-data binding that takes place. Others may well comment better than me who've done more web work. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
