Re: Webfacing reactions from users -- WDSCI-L

Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Webfacing reactions from users
From: Joep Beckeringh <joep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 08:38:20 +0200
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Joe Pluta wrote:

Yes and no, in my opinion.  Yes, there are certain things the web just
doesn't do well.  The biggest one is type-ahead; web pages don't
typically handle type-ahead very well.  But then neither does the 5250 -
it's only EMULATED 5250 sessions that support type-ahead.

Not that it is terribly important (with terminals not being made by IBM anymore), but type-ahead is supported by real terminals. I know of a developer (the last terminal user in our company) who dislikes type-ahead so much that he used to change system value QKBDBUF to *NO, because 'it is confusing for the users', as he argued.

Joep Beckeringh

P.S.: Thanks for your recent article about WDSC. I had not discovered the hidden gem WebArt before. Very useful.

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