- From: Steven Dale <sdale@stevendale.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:20:14 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <andrew_kirkpatrick@wgbh.org>
- Cc: <sdale@stevendale.com>, <foliot@wats.ca>, <accessys@smart.net>, <Kurt_Mattes@bankone.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sure Andrew, When you deposit money into your bank account at the branch, what do you do before seeing the teller? You complete a deposit slip. Is the deposit slip a process? No, the teller does the work. Same with the online bill payment. The web is a form (document) to gather information to hand to a program (on the back end) to work with. -Steve Andrew Kirkpatrick said: > > >>We are not talking about programs here, we are talking documents. I >> think this is the crux of the scripting problem. A WEBPAGE IS A >> DOCUMENT NOT A PROGRAM. If you want networking applications, write a >> program. If you want to convey information, use the web. >> >> > I have a hard time agreeing with that statement. When I use online > banking to pay a bill, is that an application or a document? An > interface to an application? > > Can you define document and application? > AWK > > -- > Andrew Kirkpatrick, Project Manager > WGBH National Center for Accessible Media > http://ncam.wgbh.org > 617.300.4420
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