>The story: client needs, for their client, fast way to web-ify a current VFP app. Thinking creatively, we put it on a terminal server and have the users use IE to connect, and via the msrdp ts control get a nice box of a VFP app inside their browser. We even quickly change the form appearance to _look_ like a website. We are proud of ourselves.
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>PROBLEM: Client's client sees it, loves it,until they find out it will not run on a Mac, and requires IE. Even though our client approved that, now everyone is hysterical.
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>The client aspects are under control. I have 1 question:
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>What is the best RAD system for making this app run under IE, Firefox, and Safari, PC and Mac. No exceptions. And need to use the VFP tables.
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>Thanks.

Tuvia --

we actually provide a simple turnkey solution just to this type of a problem. Over the past year and a half, we have been successfully migrating our own desktop -based customers (university departments) into a web solution that runs our VFP -based apps in a browser from Windows, Mac, Linux, Windows Mobile -based PDAs and smartphones, etc. without ANY modifications whatsoever. Our solutions supports IE, Safari and Firefox.

Originally we didn't plan on opening our infrastructure to other VFP developers, but since the system is running so well, we decided to change our approach and open it up for others as well, Now that we've built the necessary infrastructure, provisioned secure servers in a secure environment, and learned the various pitfalls and optimizations of this type of approach, we are opening our infrastructure to other VFP developers as well.

The way it works is different from terminal servers (Citrix, Windows, etc.) in that our system loads ONLY the application, not the entire OS. This way the startup is a lot faster, we can support a large number of applications on one single server and thus keep the cost down. To run your program as a web -solution, you wouldn't need to rewrite ANYTHING for your VFP application. We would install your current program and data and all of the associated files on our servers, give you a web address, and you or your customers would be good to go. We haven't finalized pricing yet, but it will be a reasonable monthly per-connection (not per-user) charge.

Security is handled by SSL connections, Cisco firewall appliances between the web and the servers, as well as industrial strength spam/virus/etc filters running on the servers (Windwos 2003) themselves. Our uptime has been over 99.99%, and our customers are very happy with the simplicity, speed, stability, instant familiarity and almost universal accessibility of this solution.

We will go public with our solution by the end of August, but if you'd like to learn more about the particulars before that, I'd be happy to provide you with details and a link to a live demo that runs our rather extensive VFP -based app from within a browser.