Re: the RPG problem - adrift in the PC-web wind -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: the RPG problem - adrift in the PC-web wind
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:40:24 -0500
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On 3/13/2012 4:28 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

We often begin development by firing up Dreamweaver and designing a user interface with markers where IBM i data will be inserted during run-time. We often pull in HTML templates from existing applications. I'm now more comfortable with Dreamweaver than SDA.

The only thing about this is that you are perpetuating the 5250-ish style of development. Not that that's a bad thing! But in the world of rich user interfaces, you really need a much more responsive UI. Widgets that appear dynamically and pages that resize as needed are much more applicable to complex GUI applications than marked up HTML pages. That's the beauty of most of the JavaScript frameworks; it's quite easy to make very dynamic UIs.

Joe

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