Re: Enhancements to html forms

At 10:52 AM 28/11/95, Marc Salomon wrote:
>I disagree.  One big win for HTML has been that it puts simple GUI design in
>the hands of document authors instead of restricting it to programmers.  Issues
>of applet language encumberance and security aside, languages such as Java or
>safetcl will still require a degree of programming expertise that experience
>has shown is not required to design a simple GUI.


Hear hear!  Thanks for that Marc.  That has been my experience
completely.  While I have done a fair bit of programming through
the years, I am no software engineer and OO has passed me by, unfortunately.
I quite enjoyed putting together what I did using standard "FORMS" tools,
and I think the enhancements I was discussing would provide a huge
capability without having to go to applets!

Simon Cox

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