Re: HTML and PDF Reports

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe Pluta wrote:
> That's why I'd like to see the CGI equivalent of the scheduling 
> application.

You and Chris Laffra did a good job with your scheduling application and 
I was sorely tempted to step up to your challenge to duplicate it, but 
it wouldn't be good for me to temporarily sideline my own development 
plans.  If a client asked, I'd probably budget 100 hours for it.

I have already taken the time put put together a basic AJAX library, so 
handling asynchronous requests and responses to update pages is no 
longer a strech for me.

My approach would be to use Dreamweaver to layout HTML templates and use 
a little bit of JavaScript to toggle between them, so that the client 
could play with and approve a prototype of the application without any 
connection to the server.

I'm sorry I can't spend the time on it.  I think it would be a good 
learning experience if folks were able to monitor my approach to putting 
it together, but the following link will show a scaled-back technique 
for  toggling back and forth between HTML templates, which could be 
extended to be an interesting prototype.

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/apps/rsdc/iphone.html

Nathan.