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Todd,
I've been playing with dynamic HTML in the past couple of weeks or so and
it is really nice .
Actually (IMHO) dynamic HTML (+ActiveX) means the only future for VFP on
the web is as a cheap and powerful backend (relative to SQL servers)
no reason to add the overhead of a VFP form (or VB for that matter) on the
browser when you can use smaller
Java aplets /ActiveX components and/or HTML tags and manipulate them
with the power of a regular app screen
Arnon
btw Todd, did you see RoboHelp 4 - the company that makes that (blue sky)
also has tools for converting RTF help to HTML help
they sent me a short book called "mastering HTML based help" (not too
serious but I think it is the first on th subject)
>
>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.
>
>Comments?
>
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