Thomas E Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me it was incredibly painful trying to figure out the "proper" way > to deliver a Webware based site. A few nice examples of reasonably > complete sites would go a long way.
Agreed. Oracle have recently incorporated a thing called HTML DB into their database - essentially it's a web-based development platform for producing web applications which do database display/update transactions. They are marketing it as a competitor to MS Access. I've used it to develop a simple web-based application, and it's very nice, but the developer UI is lousy, and minor cosmetic changes are far too hard. I'd love to redevelop in Python, but can't work out how to start. What I'd like is one or more sample applications with: * A decent look & feel to them (I'm lousy at design, and I much prefer to nick other people's :-) * Tabular displays based on a database query, including paging where there are a lot of rows * A "create record" page * An update page, accessible from the table display by clicking on a row * Some sort of search page * Support for multiple tables (either a tabbed display, with one table per tab, or a sidebar menu with entries for each table - something like that) * Username/password login In my experience, *lots* of applications have basically this database update structure. The success of MS Access and similar tools leads me to think that I'm not alone in this experience. Having a Python/ Webware sample application which offers this structure would be a big win. Given that a significant advantage of Python/Webware is the way that you can separate logic from look, and build apps up from components, maybe better would be having sample components - tab-based UI, sidebar-menu UI, database display, database update, login, etc, with examples of hooking them together. Actually, the look & feel side of things is probably the main point here. It's not really that hard to hack together a table display page, but it looks hacked together. The real selling point with HTML DB was that we hacked together an application, but the default look & feel *looked* slick. Paul. -- This signature intentionally left blank ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
