Roger, I appreciate your response and am sorry for wasting your time a bit by not being more detailed...
It is not a web-based app, rather browser based. Many brigades do not have net access at their stations, they might only have someone there once a fortnight, so it isn't viable. Also this app might also be used on a notebook at a remote location...where there is often no mobile phone coverage. In fact, my mistake too...it is written in ASP/VBScript/MSaccess because that is the language I knew at the time. That's why it is browser based. I have since moved on (ahead?) and use PHP/mySQL. The choice was to embellish it (a bit) to incorporate some DHTML or rewrite it from scratch so it is not browser dependent which to me seems like part of the evolutionary process. Does that change your opinion? All the best Steve Davis -----Original Message----- From: Roger Binns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Davis wrote: | Some time ago I wrote a member and incident management application for | my volunteer bushfire brigade in PHP/mySQL. It works quite well but | is browser based which limits it a bit. Being browser based shouldn't be limiting you. A big advantage is that you can become a "channel" accessible alongside other apps (it is far easier for users accessing a portal using PHP-Nuke, Plone, My Yahoo etc than separate fullblown standalone apps each with its own look and feel). And once you have web accessing via cell phones, PDAs or Nintendo Wiis is that much easier. If you felt the web based interface wasn't rich enough then there are good widget toolkits out there. For example check out Yahoo's: ~ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/ I also strongly recommend learning a little bit more about making productive web apps. See this presentation (380MB download!): ~ http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov Roger ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
