Just finished reviewing the stuff on dynamic HTML and its "surprise" event model. Now doesn't this seem familiar. MS wants to calm all those non VFP/VB people writing web pages by saying "Now don't worry, the event model isn't that scary" (quote from their page).

This is really cool. You can control a web page interactively just as you would a form in VFP. Complete with events, methods, properties. It has encapsulation and object heirarchy but as far as I could tell does not incorporate inheritance or polymorphism (yet).

While the examples now are simply ways of sprucing up web pages, this concept really makes the concept of using the web as an application to do serious work at least a consideration.

My guess is that within 4 years or so MSIE will run VFP and VB developed forms/reports etc. directly off the web.

This is really a much bigger advancement for html than OLE automation has allowed as you can build into the page itself the functions that before hand had to be driven by an outside application.

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