NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE BLASS WITH ASK THE EXPERTS 11/01/04 Today's focus: Building advanced forms
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on building ��advanced forms * Links related to Ask the Experts * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Statscout Blanket Network Performance Monitoring Monitor your entire network every 60 seconds with minimal impact on the network. Businesses and organizations seeking detailed performance and troubleshooting reporting on networks of 1000 to 200,000 network interfaces in size will benefit substantially from using Statscout. Request your 30-day trial now, click here http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=86000 _______________________________________________________________ Security Event : DEFENDING IN DEPTH Security: The vulnerability that paralyzes enterprise. Exposes assets. Drains capital. Compromises users. And terrifies management. It's your network's Achilles heel - but it doesn't have to be your downfall. Register today to find out how to protect yourself. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=86047 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Building advanced forms By Steve Blass We want software that takes commonly used industry paper forms and puts them in a SQL application. We want to hard-code or protect the wording so it can only be struck out and new words inserted in a different font with none of the existing form words changed or altered. We also want users to fill in the spaces provided with their information, and let the space grow or shrink depending on the amount of data input. Where should we start looking? The InfoPath forms we described in a recent column ( <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101104internet.html> ) can do these things. If your audience is broader than Windows 2003 users, look towards open standards-based software, such as Xforms ( <http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/Forms> ), or the XUL system used by Mozilla ( <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul> ), which can build dynamic forms and communicate with back-end databases. An Xforms plug-in for Internet Explorer is available at <http://www.formsplayer.com/>. Mozquito Deng ( <http://claus.packts.net/> ) is an Xforms plug-in in Macromedia Flash that works in browsers supported by Flash. The XMLSpy tools from <http://www.altova.com/> provide support for generating dynamic XML-driven forms for multiple browsers, and includes an end-user desktop editor for XML-based content. Blass is a network architect at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in Houston. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Blass Blass is a network architect at [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Houston. 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