On Thursday 25 September 2003 16:46, Joon wrote: > Some Ayala Cinemas (Glorietta 4, Greenbelt 3) use web-based POS for > their movie ticket sales, I believe. For some custom uses (and provided > that the use of quick keys will not be essential) a web-based POS might > just be a good option for its flexibility. I think.
i don't think it's flexibility that's the selling point. in fact, it's precisely the problem. HTML and web forms just isn't flexible enough. but, i agree, in certain situations, where there is no need for flexibility but there might be need for cross-platform use, web browsers are good (e.g., if you need to allow users to query the database from Pocket PC, Zaurus, Tablet, laptop, desktop), then a web based application with browser identification and dynamic selection of style sheets and templates can make for developing a single code base which gets displayed according to the different style sheets. no need to develop N different client applications, one for each platform and display size. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" The difficult we do today. The impossible takes a little longer. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
