On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 08:56 AM, Kevin D. Joseph wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Richard Gambrell wrote:
>
>> PHP and Python (and others) for doing web pages.  Got to write
>> the UI in something. Can the web be the only UI - does this
>> make any sense at all?
>>
>
> I think that this is an excellent question.  Does it make sense to use
> the
> web (html forms specifically) for applications that require someone to
> do
> data entry all day long?  Would you have your cashiers taking student
> payments working in a web browser?
>
A web page is just like block mode, the idea for data entry is that it
is supposed to be done fast.  A web page would work fine depending on
the amount of validation going on, some can be done in the web page,
especially with PHP, but if you want to do form level validation, then
you've got a server back and forth which can be time consuming.  So it's
all in the design, but it is an acceptable way to go.
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