> Better still, have an HTML specialist design you web pages, and have a
> programmer do the program. I have seem many applications that work fine,
> but have very poor UI - classic case of one designed by programmers. Its
> hard to find good programmers who are also good UI designers, and vice
> versa, so why not separate the two. HTML makes this very easy. If you
> want
> to change the look and feel, get another HTML designer to do the job.
HTML UI is close to oxymoron for most DB applications that I know. HTML is
plain clumsy compared to 2 tier or single tier applications and this is my
biggest bug bear. Scrolling through records is painful. Search interfaces are
often (not always) horrible and its plain hard to program around these limitations
in HTML. I know it takes some beating for distributed users over wide areas but for
my everyday local databases, no thank you - I'm too busy to struggle with
primitive interfaces on slow http servers.
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