Subject: Re: Interactive XML From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:18:50 -0500 |
Pawson, David wrote: > > > Picking up on one point in this thread, > are you guys happy having ecmascript as the available tool > for basic processing? > > It is dismally inadequate for our needs here, has no one else > picked up on this? Any sort of forms processing will surely need > more than ecmascript? Why? Thousands of sites use ECMAScript for forms processing today. Before there was a web, forms processing was mostly done in variants of basic like Visual Basic and PowerScript. If Basic was powerful enough, why wouldn't ECMAScript be? Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Three things trust above all else: Your knowledge of your craft That someone turns a profit, and that you will get the shaft http://www.geezjan.org/humor/computers/threes.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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