Re: Interactive XML

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

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