Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:22:04 -0800
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On 1/21/15 1:20 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

With all the travails that developers seem to go through to implement
overlays and advanced function printing, it makes me wonder how long before
shops might move to HTML for reporting?

HTML isn't for reports, any more than it's for email.

HTML is for web pages. Period. It's designed to be flexible in adapting to a wide variety of rendering technologies, NOT to produce consistent appearance across all of those technologies.

That's what PDFs are for.

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JHHL

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