Archive for January 31, 2003

January 31, 2003 at 10:06 am · Filed under unfiled

Problems with HTML.

David Heller: HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. [Scripting News]

This is an excellent, excellent essay with LOTS of great feedback.  My gut has been confirmed - HTML has a LOT of problems and Flash ain’t the solution.

[Marc’s Voice]

Yes, cool discussion of the technologies … but still no clear direction. Exciting and frustrating at the same time.

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January 31, 2003 at 9:23 am · Filed under unfiled

Application Thoughts #2

RSS for Event Listings

There are stirrings about using RSS namespaces for application oriented data, particularly Classifieds.
I think Event Listings is another natural application.

Keeping on top of events

Application Thoughts #3

DMOZ for topic exchange

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January 31, 2003 at 9:03 am · Filed under unfiled

Application Thoughts #1
A series of three ideas rattling around in my brain

Simple Web Application Design for Non-Techies

The lecturer for my Ecology classes brought in a notebook, in which sutdents from multiple classes were to sign up for Work Days on one of serveral Restoration Projects, for extra credit. Each Work Day has space for 20 students, there’s a sheet of paper giving directions to the location, and a form for entering contact info.

And I wonder, is there a toolset which would allow him to build this sign up notebook as a web application?? The most notable advantage would be the paper conservation, which he lamented a couple times.

For this, he needs to design the form, assign constraints to the fields, assign actions to the fields (for example, the app could reference a student database with all the contact info), save the data to a database, perhaps interact with a grading application, send out reminders about the upcoming work day…

A days work for a web developer? Perhaps there is are classes of applications, like this one, which are primed for incorporation in a Wizard like environment? I wonder if application framework (from MS, or BEA, or PeopleSoft) supports this sort of thing?

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