Thanks Dieter. I will work on it. After that I will send you the modified 
sources lika always.

I like your open mind about SL!

Regards,

Antonio Gallardo.

El Lunes, 26 de Agosto de 2002 13:03, Dieter Simader escribi�:
> There is no tradeoff here. SL is designed to run different frontends from
> template data.
>
> lynx will remain, there may be more of a split yet from the mozilla stuff
> to have a better display. Tables aren't rendered all that well in lynx but
> it does the trick.
>
> mozilla is a catch all do GUI browser framed frontend
>
> The Javascript port will go into bin/js and if one wants to run Javascript
> then you'd pass terminal=js The menu, which is something like your
> traditional "File", "Edit" pulldown menu on top is done but it requires a
> lot of horsepower to run.
>
>
> Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
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>
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:37:24PM -0400, Keith Mastin wrote:
> > > >On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 07:21, Antonio Gallardo Rivera wrote:
> > > >> Can we use Javascript to make a better menu? Do you agree with this?
> > > >
> > > >I would rather use frames. See www.computerdatasafe.com.au for an
> > > > example of how it could be structured.
> > > >
> > > >Don't take a lot of notice of the content, it's not officially there
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > >The basic idea is a row of links across the top that drive links in
> > > > the left column to drive the page contents. The icon position selects
> > > > the "home page."
> > >
> > > Frames don't work with lynx. Neither does the javascript. If you drop
> > > the console access, you loose one of the main advantages of SL.
> >
> > I'm not a fan of frames ever, or of gratuitous javascript. But neither am
> > I a fan of using the web interface to do things it can't do well. For
> > instance, drop-down lists work well if you have a dozen debtors, but they
> > don't work if you have five hundred. I have worked for a company who had
> > five hundred debtors and in excess of a thousand stock items, and they
> > were a small business.
> >
> > It could be argued that getting a better UI is worth the cost of losing
> > console access. That is a legitimate tradeoff, and its worth exploring
> > whether it is a tradeoff that Dieter wants to make.
>
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