Re: UI design and build

The web is big, but a small subset, standard since html 1.0 is enough to
replace the green screen.

El lun, 26 de may de 2025, 11:11, cesco via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

This whole web thing has become increasingly complex

It is complex in the space of tools offered and paradigms, in the "choice
space", but it's "shallow complexity". It is almost a "linguistic" problem,
a lack of standardization, like reinventing things over and over with
"frameworks". You feel like taking the proverbial forest when you needed
just a banana over and over again.Internet protocols like http and smtp
gained momentum because they were dead simple at beginning, you could have
asked a web page with telnet in the old days...

But to build ERP like stuff effectively and economically and therefore
*sustainably* for your enterprise you need to have standards.

DDS and DisplayFiles were the "view" before MVC became a thing and
fashionable, such models stems from decades of problem solving and
reasoning in developing conversational business apps.The debate is not 5250
, web, or images projected directly in the brain, it the basic fundamentals
and primitives that the OS offers.DDS and DSPF was a solution and a
paradigm, and you could have hired a person that "know the 400" and was
assumed to know those and therefore productive in little time and able to
reason about programs. I know consultants that supports and fully dev full
custom solutions in two/three unrelated companies in a week, the value is
knowing the company, the tech stack is assumed and well known.
This was a big, incredible advantage in term of competitiveness and
economics (that as an indicator summarize the effective use of time,
sustanability, etc.).
The only one that could (could have) put a patch on this is the vendor
that owns the OS (the same that some external vendor tool does and allows
to do on the i with openaccess - and that I also use - but with the obvious
fragmentation in solutions).
Delphi is still around for a reason to dev complex business solutions,
despite being called dead as many times as the 400. Visual basic also....










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