Folks,
It is my great pleasure to announce that R:BASE 7.5 for Windows, to be unveiled at the Fall 2004 R:BASE Developers' Conference in October http://www.rbase.com/conference, will include the OPTION XHTML to print R:BASE 7.5 reports as XHTML.
What is XHTML?
XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML is a new, stricter and cleaner version of HTML XHTML is aimed to replace HTML XHTML is almost identical to HTML 4.01 XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application
Why XHTML?
XML is a markup language where everything has to be marked up correctly, which results in "well-formed" documents.
XML was designed to describe data and HTML was designed to display data.
Today's market consists of different browser technologies, some browsers run internet on computers, and some browsers run internet on mobile phones and hand helds. The last- mentioned do not have the resources or power to interpret a "bad" markup language.
Therefore - by combining HTML and XML, and their strengths, we got a markup language that is useful now and in the future - XHTML.
Most importantly, XHTML pages can be read by all XML enabled devices AND while waiting for the rest of the world to upgrade to XML supported browsers, XHTML gives you the opportunity to write "well-formed" documents now, that work in all browsers and that are backward browser compatible.
Example of printing R:BASE 7.5 report as XHTML:
PRINT SalesSumAndSubTot + OPTION XHTML + |AUTHOR Accounting Team of ConComp + |BACKGROUND_COLOR WHITE + |BACKGROUND_FILE NONE + |BACKGROUND_TYPE CENTER + |CSSFILE + |DEFAULT_FONT_NAME Verdana + |DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE 9 + |DEFAULT_FONT_COLOR BLACK + |DEFAULT_FONT_BOLD OFF + |DEFAULT_FONT_ITALIC OFF + |DEFAULT_FONT_UNDERLINE OFF + |DEFAULT_FONT_STRIKEOUT OFF + |DISABLE_RIGHT_CLICK OFF + |DISABLE_COPYING OFF + |GENERATE_TOC ON + |FILENAME XHTML\SalesSumAndSubTot.html + |IMAGE_FORMAT JPG + |IMAGE_FOLDER Images + |IMAGE_DPI -1 + |INCLUDE_HYPERLINKS ON + |INCLUDE_IMAGES ON + |INCLUDE_LINES ON + |INCLUDE_RICHTEXT OFF + |INCLUDE_SHAPES ON + |JAVA_SCRIPT_FILE_NAME + |JPEG_QUALITY 100 + |KEYWORDS SubTotals Totals Sales Summary + |LINK_BACK_COLOR WHITE + |LINK_H_BACK_COLOR BLUE + |LINK_H_FORE_COLOR WHITE + |LINK_IMG_FILE_FIRST XHTML\First.gif + |LINK_IMG_FILE_LAST XHTML\Last.gif + |LINK_IMG_FILE_NEXT XHTML\Next.gif + |LINK_IMG_FILE_PREV XHTML\Prev.gif + |LINK_TEXT_FIRST First + |LINK_TEXT_LAST Last + |LINK_TEXT_NEXT Next + |LINK_TEXT_PREV Previous + |LINK_FONT_NAME Wingdings + |LINK_FONT_SIZE 10 + |LINK_FONT_COLOR BLUE + |LINK_FONT_BOLD OFF + |LINK_FONT_ITALIC OFF + |LINK_FONT_UNDERLINE OFF + |LINK_FONT_STRIKEOUT OFF + |NAV_ORIENT HOR + |NAV_POS BOTTOMCENTER + |NAV_SHOW ON + |NAV_TYPE PAGE + |OPEN ON + |OUTPUT_SCRIPTS_TO_JAVA_SCRIPT_FILE + |OUTPUT_STYLES_TO_CSS_FILE ON + |PAGE_END_LINES ON + |PIXELFORMAT 24 + |RICHTEXT_ENCODING_TYPE PLAINTEXT + |SEP_FILE_PER_PAGE ON + |SHOW_CANCEL_DIALOG ON + |SUBJECT ConComp Sales Summary Report + |TITLE Customer Sales Sub-Totals and Totals + |TOC_FILE_NAME Index.html + |USE_TEXT_LINKS OFF RETURN
Now you are able to deploy all R:BASE 7.x reports on demand using R:WEB Suite http://www.rbase.com/rwebsuite (samples).
Stay tuned for MORE ...
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak.
