Re: Drag & drop

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe Pluta wrote:
> You will start out with a bad page from Dreamweaver
> and make it worse with RPG-CGI.

Ironically Dreamweaver is a drag and drop WYSIWYG editor, including 
property sheets, and code-complete prompting.

I only insert two (2) things in an HTML page to interface with an RPG 
program.  <RECORD> and {{FIELD}} delimeters.  Nothing more.

One big difference is that Dreamweaver generates HTML.  Now that's a 
novel approach; instead of generating intermediate components that 
ultimately render as HTML, or generating script that generates DOM 
objects.  Another irony is that intermediate components implement the 
same attributes, events, and methods that are implemented by HTML, 
except you need "advanced" tooling to work with them.

I understand that there's some satisfaction in using "advanced" tooling 
to generate, generate, generate, but it's overkill in my mind.  I prefer 
to keep things simple.

If a developer won't learn HTML and Javascript, it's unlikely that 
they'll learn a 4th generation language, plus HTML and JavaScript.

Nathan.